Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an order , a decree that had to be obeyed , and the woman obviously knew better than to argue . |
| 2 | I mean you obviously did well because you 've realized you 've forgotten it and you know you 've got ta , the ideal two worst steps over to , the person who 's sitting here is not gon na say , hold on , where 's the buyer 's guide , |
| 3 | Held , allowing the appeal , there was an important distinction to be made between cases where the complainant claimed to recognise the assailant as a person he already knew well and those where the complainant had never seen the assailant before . |
| 4 | I lost the knack of starting last year with all the other pressures but I always qualified well and I was quick on the track . |
| 5 | I also knew better than to seek him out . |
| 6 | The main opposition Democratic Party ( DP ) and the Unification National Party ( UNP — formed in January 1992 ) both did better than had been expected . |
| 7 | I think in broad terms we can say that er , Les Echo comparatively did better than the F T. |
| 8 | Similarly , to revert to the question of the 11+ , the fact that girls as a group consistently did better than boys did not result in more grammar school places for girls . |
| 9 | Owen today plays Del Harris , the favourite , who again played well while beating an England squad member , Mark Cairns , 9-5 , 9-4 , 9-2 . |
| 10 | John won his third cap , again played well and was again a winner . |
| 11 | If , as I 'm inclined to believe , this unwonted willingness to kiss the rod represents one last offer by Pound ( at this time , aged forty-eight ! ) to enrol in Binyon 's seminar if Binyon would only call it into being , Binyon once again knew better than to understand what Pound was driving at . |
| 12 | Apart from the obvious ones , who else did well and badly last week ? |
| 13 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 14 | Billy refused to allow this to affect his performances in the Palace goal and he never played better than in his last two League games for us at the end of the 1931–32 season . |
| 15 | In fact , Cool Ground worked with Romany King and Sirrah Jay , and they actually worked better than he did . |
| 16 | Heston shares the Chairmanship with Marshal of the RAF Sir John Grandy , of whom he remarked ‘ I confess to a frisson of awe at sharing a Chairmanship with a former Air Vice Marshal , I never did better than Staff Sergeant myself . ’ |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the move to Easingwold , a small market town that was similar in many ways to Pocklington but with fewer saddlers , was a beneficial one , for the family certainly did better once they were there . |