Example sentences of "[vb past] well [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
| 2 | The distinctions near the bottom were equally interesting : barbers , bartenders and truck drivers , for instance , rated better than waiters , taxi drivers and night-watchmen , who in turn could look down slightly on gardeners , miners and dustmen . |
| 3 | Obviously some clothiers fared better than others for there were quite a large number of bankruptcies between 1800 and 1840 . |
| 4 | It can be seen that , whilst all regions reflected the higher national unemployment rate , some regions fared better than others . |
| 5 | Roland Holder , the current Barbados captain , who fared better than Jimmy Adams in the preceding England ‘ A ’ tour , was not even mentioned in dispatches . |
| 6 | It had very publicly been made clear that outrageous tactics worked , that blocking roads worked better than MPs ’ intervention … |
| 7 | The only objective sense in which monetarism worked better than Keynesianism was the electoral one : the ‘ strong bargainers in all classes ’ were content for the economy to run at well below capacity . |
| 8 | Surely things worked better when men and women knew their place in society ? — that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Leeds started well but Norwich shaded the first-half scoring 2 mins before half-time . |
| 10 | Stoke started well and Stein sliced a shot wide following good work by Beeston and Heath , but as the half progressed Peterborough began to dominate . |
| 11 | Annadale started well as Jim Campbell took the 1500 metres in 3.47.37 , just ahead of club mate Dermot Donnelly who won the B event in 3.47.43 . |
| 12 | Sadly , of course , Laurent 's smaller map sold well while Green 's was not a financial success , he only sold 400 out of the 600 copies . |
| 13 | ‘ The difficulty is that Perry does everything that bit better than Tristram . |
| 14 | some of which went better than others |
| 15 | It went better than Busacher had hoped . |
| 16 | And there was no man in the kingdom who knew better than Owen what Hotspur 's disdainful answer had been to the council 's shameful proposal of murder in place of magnanimity . |
| 17 | It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks . |
| 18 | No one knew better than John Coffin what a network of alleys , underground passages , and dark basements nestling in old buildings still lay near the river . |
| 19 | From that day on , nothing about the mill went well -unless Neva had a hand in it . |
| 20 | All went well until RAF Benson had chased him all round the sky and their MATZ before issuing their not unusual request to ‘ resume your own navigation ’ leaving him totally lost , heading into a nasty and unforecast rainstorm and trying to track into the White Waltham entry lane using cross-cuts on the single VOR . |
| 21 | ( 22 December 1780 ) Despite these worries , the rehearsals went well and reports of them reached Salzburg , much to the delight of Leopold : |
| 22 | The studies went well and Gedge got the top grade in his ‘ A ’ Level maths exam . |
| 23 | All went well and Chris was given the job . |
| 24 | The President knew well that Diem 's rule was both repressive and corrupt , but the idea of an alternative government made up of members of the opposition National Liberation Front ( NLF ) and including some Communists was rejected by the Americans . |
| 25 | As : When the 11+ tests were widely held , every year girls as a group did better than boys as a group on all three tests , including the one for arithmetic . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If you think they were , they were two who did better than England . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Johnny Blunt could say ‘ Yes ; no ; door ; window ’ , but he did better than Harold Waterman ( Hans Wasserman ) who knew a complete sentence : ‘ The gardener 's in the garden . ’ |
| 30 | It raged well before Israel acquired Judaea , Samaria , Gaza and the Golan in a defensive war . " |