Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office said a British official who visited Paul Ride in prison yesterday found him well and in good heart . |
| 2 | The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling . |
| 3 | It prepared me better than anything I 'd read or seen for the crisp exterior and soft centre of the Big Apple . |
| 4 | Whatever his personal misgivings , Valenzuela hid them well and when his compulsory military service ended he signed on for a permanent career in the Air Force . |
| 5 | This served me well when I joined the army in 1940 . |
| 6 | Despite the vast edifice that they built up on extremely shaky premises the phrenologists were socially-committed men , with an interest in holistic medicine and a shrewdness that served them well when they ran their fingers over somebody 's skull in pursuit of character . |
| 7 | Alexander served her well but failed her by not producing an heir when he married that French hussy . ’ |
| 8 | Her confidence and conviction that she was somebody special served her well when she applied for the UN job . |
| 9 | McMenemy added : ‘ He handled it well and emerged with credit from Liverpool 's European campaigns . |
| 10 | ‘ Mikhail … we are still comparative strangers , but I would have hoped you already knew me better than that . |
| 11 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 12 | I thought you at least knew me better than that . ’ |
| 13 | I thought you knew me better than that . ’ |
| 14 | You spent so much time with her , I felt she even knew you better than I did . |
| 15 | Oh , he knew you better than I , for all my rebellious ravings ! |
| 16 | She liked the people — many of whom she knew well , and at least as importantly — many of whom knew her well and had known her since early childhood , before the mark of fame had set her apart . |
| 17 | He became a bishop because , and solely because , the diocese knew him well and wanted him back . |
| 18 | His mother says she knew him well and he would n't commit suicide . |
| 19 | I knew him well as he was a collector . |
| 20 | You knew him well when you were small . ’ |
| 21 | Naturalists , zoologists , conservationists already knew him well because of his work with the Wildfowl Trust . |
| 22 | And the four week old probably understood it better than I do . |
| 23 | Well if you 'd put the sound quality was poor , I thought it better than rambling when it was , when it should of said brambling . |
| 24 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 25 | ‘ He probably thought it better that you did n't know . |
| 26 | I told my mother that as Thomas would be in strange surroundings and might wake in the night I thought it better if the two of you shared a room . |
| 27 | People who knew us well before we married did n't think there was a chance of it working . |
| 28 | These pieces represent English Romanticism at its peak and nobody did them better than Beecham . |
| 29 | Yul Bryner did it well but his |
| 30 | They keep questioning me , always asking where I was what I did why I did it , did all of them where I was who I was with who am I trying to kid why do n't I just admit I did it well if I did n't do all these things , who did ? |