Example sentences of "[vb base] do well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unskilled workers tend to do better than the professionals , enjoying the advantages of a free market for the first time in their lives . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 've done better than most , but our membership levels have suffered as well . |
| 8 | I understand er good weather in Wales has meant red kites have done well as well ? |
| 9 | To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin . |
| 10 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
| 11 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 12 | So I guess I have done better than some people . |
| 13 | We need to do better than that , and we can . |