Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
| 2 | Throughout this , Esther maintained the fiction that she was in love with her older brother Saul , and maintained it so well that not even Alix and Liz knew the truth of the matter . |
| 3 | As the tailor never saw his subject , it always amazed me how well the dresses fitted . |
| 4 | We played a practice round with Jack Nicklaus , and Jack again told me how well he thought the only threat to Greg might be his confidence . |
| 5 | He told me how well he remembered my mother as a refugee in his home and how much his parents and grand father had liked her and thought of her as part of the family . |
| 6 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
| 7 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 8 | She dried her off well and said , ‘ She ca n't have two washes ’ . |
| 9 | She asked after you and was pleased when I told her how well your business was doing and that you seemed in good spirits since she said she had been anxious for you . |
| 10 | not doing to badly at all today digged it up well Wonder what Lynn 's doing , getting up . |
| 11 | Told it rather well , I thought . |
| 12 | It 's who 's facing Lawrence now , he 's in and bends off a short ball going towards Botham at leg gully , played it pretty well , in fact , the ball bouncing up towards his ribcage , angle the back down , played it very safely . |
| 13 | scaring herself ; not because she played her part badly , but because she played it so well . |
| 14 | And this style lent itself very well to uniform hats and caps . |
| 15 | Ornaments and statues were cast in a mould and the material lent itself very well to this technique , preserving crisp detailing . |
| 16 | Ashley never scrubbed them very well did he ? |
| 17 | ‘ If she was desperate , ’ said Irene , ‘ she hid it pretty well . |
| 18 | Pursued by the press , both men hid themselves as well as they could . |
| 19 | And the Christians defended themselves right well , and every time that they went upon the walls , they sounded trumpets and tambours ; and made great rejoicings , as the Cid had commanded . |
| 20 | You taught them so well , ’ she went on , ‘ you 've made the name O'Malley hated and feared for miles around . |
| 21 | I thought I shuffled them quite well then , do n't you ? |
| 22 | United manager Alex Ferguson said : ‘ We quietened them quite well and we played excellent football . |
| 23 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 24 | What the report does not mention is whether MI6 received any overtures from the KGB to exchange Blake , nor does it consider the possibility that the KGB might want to free an agent who served it so well . |
| 25 | Our National President , Steve Gauld , closed the Convention and we offered our thanks and gratitude to all those who had made the weekend such a success , to Tim Cain who kept all the sessions to time ; to the exhibitors who supported us so well ; to all the members and outside speakers who made presentations ; to the staff of Keele University who served us so well in all areas ; and to Joe Bennett who organised the whole thing , sorted out the speakers , took our bookings and generally made sure it all went well . |
| 26 | I thought our defence handled them extremely well . |
| 27 | It would seem that I had no choice in either matter , but whereas the former flattered me as well as frightened me , the latter insulted and enraged me . |
| 28 | But Nigel Briers acquitted himself very well , won the toss and elected to field . |
| 29 | But , despite getting kicked and punched , he handled himself very well . ’ |
| 30 | By general agreement , the Palestinian component of the joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation handled itself extremely well — indeed , with distinction — at the Madrid conference . |