Example sentences of "[v-ing] well [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything seemed to be going well and Yurchenko was about to provide more useful information when , on 2 November 1985 , he eluded his CIA colleagues at a restaurant in Washington and made his way back to the Russian Embassy and thence to Moscow . |
| 2 | The famous film director from France could speak no English , and so Miranda was being sent to do the interview as well as provide the paper 's weekly caricature ; she had the address of the location , a newsagent 's in the High Street of a part of the city she had never heard mentioned before , Giblett Park , though she had lived in London most of her life ; the Press Office had said that he would give her ten minutes between takes , or more if she were lucky and the filming was going well and Jean-Claude Meursault was feeling mellow . |
| 3 | But by now the American work was going well and President Roosevelt decided that future exchanges with Britain should be kept to a minimum . |
| 4 | Things were going well until Dorothy became impatient . |
| 5 | Mr Parrott , who has a Gunners tatoo on his right forearm , said : ‘ My Sunday League side has been doing better than Arsenal . |
| 6 | Some people are capable of doing better and will if judiciously kicked into it . |
| 7 | There may also be changes in performance , with some schools doing better and others less well than in the past . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Mr Welch is routinely cited as one of America 's best businessmen , mainly because he has kept GE 's huge juggernaut performing well while others have foundered . |
| 9 | ‘ The US is performing well and Australia is showing signs of an upturn . |
| 10 | Mother and baby are both doing well although dad was a bit tired ! |
| 11 | Dreams was doing well but luxuries like these were still in the distant future . |
| 12 | He said the company had an overdraft , but it was doing well and Roger Tucker just needed some security to show his superiors and to hold for three weeks . |
| 13 | Our small-animal practice is doing well and Robert 's large-animal one likewise . |
| 14 | is pleased to report that mother and cygnets are doing well and thanks to tasty titbits of Omega petfood are growing stronger every day . |
| 15 | The buy-out company — premier Brands — has since been doing well and Sir Adrian is confident Cadbury 's shareholders will have nothing to complain about when the new company does eventually go to the market . |
| 16 | The business is not doing well though sales are good — higher than one might expect in a town of this size and against significant competition — ’ |
| 17 | DOA ( 15 Buena Vista 12 Oct ) is another remake , this time of a 1949 film noir , starting well as Dennis Quaid discovers he has been poisoned and will die within 24 hours : the initials stand for Dead On Arrival . |
| 18 | I can assure them , and the people as a whole , that the L M S scheme had been born , was living and progressing well when Labour took control of the Council . |
| 19 | I know we are playing well and Sunderland are a bag of shite but its a cup match and we seem to be shit at cup matches . |
| 20 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 21 | We are keen to help them to do so , but the Security Council is working well and reform is neither necessary nor desirable . |
| 22 | The experiment is working well and feedback is very positive . |