Example sentences of "[vb past] well [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William , who attended the meeting , also agreed that he behaved better when the eyes of the world were upon him . |
| 2 | During the middle rounds , when Mason still believed one punch could end it , he outjabbed the Wandsworth man and opened a cut over his left eye , but Mason rallied well and the last session in particular left no doubt as to which way the verdict would go . |
| 3 | A generous Dalglish said : ‘ Watford played better than the score suggests , but obviously we are pleased to see a few goals go in . ’ |
| 4 | TV scored better than the national dailies for nearly all the categories of news listed in a survey for the 1974 Press Commission ( Table 6.12 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ You deserved better than a one-night stand , Kate . |
| 6 | But the province fared better than the UK as a whole where building society mortgage lending fell by 20pc in 1992 . |
| 7 | The Bookshop also suffered from the recession in 1992 , but fared better than the book trade generally . |
| 8 | In fact , the daughters of the poorest labourers survived better than the daughters of the wealthiest erm farmers . |
| 9 | But in a game of few clear openings , Gunn coped well and the absence of the Sudbury 'keeper , who took two heavy knocks in the opening exchanges , made little material difference to the pattern of the game . |
| 10 | All our boys ran and handled well and the forwards looked quite tight . |
| 11 | The format worked well because the interviewees were never told in advance what they were going to be asked . |
| 12 | It worked well and the sighting and arrival were both within two minutes of the estimates . |
| 13 | In particular , the humbucker 's midrange qualities made generating harmonics easy , and all the pickups tracked well when the tremolo was pushed flat to the body . |
| 14 | Both coxes steered well and the blades did not appear to touch but the youthful Chick probably won the battle against Cambridge 's Andy Probert . |
| 15 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 16 | Did I really think I knew better than the FO , full of clever people who were experts on British foreign policy ? |
| 17 | Trials for certification went well until a spin test dictated by the Bureau of Air Commerce ( later CAA ) resulted in a flat spin , whereupon the pilot , Jack Kelley , abandoned the aircraft by parachute and it was destroyed . |
| 18 | All went well until the patrol reached the area of the Trig al Ab , the old camel track leading into the desert from the coast road where L Detachment had made their rendezvous after the first operation . |
| 19 | All went well until the match started and the cameraman arrived . |
| 20 | Not all went well as the second half began . |
| 21 | Fortunately my 1983 conference speech went well and the row started to calm down . |
| 22 | The first three years went well and the business continued to expand . |
| 23 | The seminars all went well and the Australian branches have received a number of enquiries as a result . |
| 24 | The season went well and the club recently held its presentation dinner dance where the trophies were awarded . |
| 25 | All went well and the 600 tonne roof was lowered safely down on to the reactor . |
| 26 | that 's right , and I thought well while the the pile 's there they wo n't know whose they are I 'll just . |
| 27 | But then when he said two hundred and one pounds for a pension mortgage I thought well if a hundred and ninety |
| 28 | Firms that did better than the target would be rewarded with credits which they could sell to firms that did worse . |
| 29 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 30 | On most of these the boys did better than the girls , especially on drawing and visualization items . |