Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She seems to be recovering well and is cheerful , able to talk to her visitors , ’ he added . |
| 2 | By shading in charts , the villagers visually appreciate which areas of life seem to be growing well and which are already becoming problematic or will become difficult in the near future . |
| 3 | Everything would be going well except for that damn business [ of the lost wallet ] . |
| 4 | Everything seemed to be going well and Yurchenko was about to provide more useful information when , on 2 November 1985 , he eluded his CIA colleagues at a restaurant in Washington and made his way back to the Russian Embassy and thence to Moscow . |
| 5 | ‘ Everything seemed to be going well and I looked like finishing well in the points when I went off , all on my own , towards the end . |
| 6 | I seemed to be running better and better , more powerfully . |
| 7 | The business seemed to be doing well and all day vans called for items which Joe had listed and William prepared for despatch . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 9 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 10 | Because you would be saying well if we have classes this provides us with a way forward for the future in a way that if we have absolute egalitarianism that , how would we make progress through to socialism ? |
| 11 | The assumptions lying behind such targeted programmes are that the ‘ problem ’ is a bounded one , concerned with ‘ pockets of poverty or deprivation ’ , restricted areas of decay , which can be remedied through relatively limited expenditure and precise targeting of funds and activities to ‘ special ’ , different , difficult problems , limited problems which remain to be rooted out , while the rest of the system is assumed to be functioning well and on course for prosperity and harmony . |