Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know what you want to buy better than I do anyway . |
| 2 | Erm East Midlands erm expect to do well and that continues a reasonably firm trend . |
| 3 | And I want to eat well and I want to be comfortable and I want to stay in good hotel |
| 4 | How could anyone , ’ he asked , ‘ hope to get well or remain cheerful in such an environment of decay ? ’ |
| 5 | How could anyone , hope to get well or remain cheerful in such an environment of decay ? ’ |
| 6 | Pelargoniums seem to flower better when rather pot-bound , so keep their roots restricted . |
| 7 | Interestingly , initial offerings that reverse leveraged buy-outs — a fast-growing category , especially in America — seem to perform better than average . |
| 8 | Some patients seem to do well and have a bowel frequency of less than four in 24 hours without any impairment of continence . |
| 9 | Unskilled workers tend to do better than the professionals , enjoying the advantages of a free market for the first time in their lives . |
| 10 | A recent survey by the bank has discovered that people who have experience of unemployment before becoming self-employed tend to do better than those who give up a job to do so . |
| 11 | Indeed , this variation in size very closely matches their performance : those larger than average tend to do better than the GCD , and those smaller tend to do worse . |
| 12 | Because you know dam well that those people , the ones that are not and are making the fuss are probably the ones that lead , need the money least . |
| 13 | ‘ Footballers get paid well and it makes you wonder about the standard of players at the moment . ’ |
| 14 | There is also now ample research to show that children whose parents listen to them reading at home tend to read better and to enjoy reading more than other children ( Topping and Wolfendale , 1985 ; see also Sheila Wolfendale 's Primary Schools and Special Needs , in the present series ) . |
| 15 | It is perhaps a tribute to Klemperer 's stature that all the recordings featured here continue to stimulate well after the CDs are returned to their place on my shelves . |
| 16 | They continue to do well as stand-ins for Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal , both shooting 70s to put the hosts on 12 under 276 . |
| 17 | I tend to play hard but I work-out hard and I take vitamins and try to eat well and stuff like that . |
| 18 | Frenchmen do dress better than us . |
| 19 | Irish teams do tour well and it is certain that the new assistant coach Gerry Murphy will improve the quality of Ireland 's back play . |
| 20 | I 've putted well but have n't holed anything . ’ |
| 21 | I 've putted well but have n't holed anything . ’ |
| 22 | What people tend to do is they answer a question that they 've revised well and they can easily answer and they spend an hour and a half on it and then they fi they do , I mean you know you see them answering they write you pages and pages and pages and it 's a perfect answer and they get maybe ninety percent but had they spent about half as much time they 'd have got seventy percent anyway because they knew most of the important bits . |
| 23 | Of course there 's no one more supportive when the chips are down , and no one is prouder of you when you 've done well than your old mum … . |
| 24 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 25 | I mean th th they 've done better than anybody than everything else , because as rates have come down , I can go back and see a client and the National Savings has fallen , and the building society 's fallen , but the , the annuity 's still plugging away . |
| 26 | We 've done better than most , but our membership levels have suffered as well . |
| 27 | Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker . |
| 28 | I understand er good weather in Wales has meant red kites have done well as well ? |
| 29 | All have done well and all shall have prizes . |
| 30 | ‘ So , Wilson , ’ Mr Browning said , shifting uncomfortably , ‘ you have done well and I am grateful . |