Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] well as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She returned Travis 's kiss warmly , then bent as well as she could to hug Jonas . |
| 2 | Dandelion swam as well as he ran , swiftly and easily . |
| 3 | Prescott 's enumeration of Labour 's ‘ old vision ’ was inadequate — because of what it excluded as well as for its needless commitment to public ownership . |
| 4 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 5 | But by the end of the decade they had absorbed the lessons learned by the other teams , and had accepted that , if they played as well as they could , they could win . |
| 6 | Between them come Stravinsky 's Dumbarton Oaks concerto and Frank Martin 's Petite Symphonie Concertante , a work that grows in stature with every hearing , especially when conducted and played as well as it is here . |
| 7 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 8 | We played as well as we 've played all season last weekend and a match like this is the best way to end our league season , ’ said coach Tommy Dowens . |
| 9 | Because prayers had to be stimulated and informed as well as ordered , the preaching role of the church was no less important . |
| 10 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
| 11 | With Mark Hughes stepping into the centre-back role , Tranmere defended as well as they have all season , restricting Leicester to a smattering of half chances . |
| 12 | What heartened as well as chastened me about the letter was his wish to see more of my writing . |
| 13 | I did then , and do now , agree with what is there stated as well as with the passages to the like effect in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 22 , 26 . |
| 14 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 15 | Therefore , you are bound to feel thwarted , frustrated as well as exhausted at the moment — quite unable to get your point or message across and still in two minds regarding certain plans and moves . |
| 16 | Even in her dazed and painful state his imperious , if not to say imperial manner amused as well as annoyed her . |
| 17 | They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform . |
| 18 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
| 19 | She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival . |
| 20 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 21 | Her speech went as well as was possible , given that it was being made on the stickiest of sticky Parliamentary wickets . |
| 22 | ‘ I think he ran as well as he could in the circumstances and he 'll go again at Longchamp in two weeks . ’ |
| 23 | We were pleased to have your Easter card , and hope that the year continued as well as it seems to have begun . |
| 24 | We hope the trip continued as well as it had begun , and that you got home refreshed . |
| 25 | The Chinese democracy movement also demolished , though too briefly , the barrier of orientalising misperception which for so much of the European Left as well as for the ruling establishments has consigned China into the category of the separate and different . |
| 26 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |