Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] well [conj] " in BNC.

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1 However , most of us have very ordinary windows and want to know how to treat them well and interestingly for the least possible expense .
2 I wanted my friends to know me better than they had before .
3 GET TO KNOW ME BETTER THAN MY BEST MATE DOES !
4 When I got home I said , ‘ They ought to know you better than think you would marry a prostitute . ‘
5 ‘ I felt I 'd like to know you better before I broached the subject . ’
6 The committee would like to get to know YOU better and therefore be able to run our branch more efficiently … so could you PLEASE fill in and return this page to any committee member/any group notice board ( see envelope provided ) /by post to the branch membership sec. ,
7 ‘ She goes to school at Sanderstown College , and I 've got to know her well because she sails on the Mantela every holiday .
8 Gilbert with his horn-rimmed glasses and walrus moustache was popular in Canada , but I did not get to know him well until we later met on at least half a dozen occasions for lunch in London .
9 The government consider that our present constitutional arrangements continue to serve us well and that the citizen of this country enjoys the greatest degree of liberty that is compatible with the rights of others and the vital interests of the State … .
10 WILLIAMS , formally ] I am very glad to see you well and I am very glad of an opportunity to acknowledge your good intentions when you believed me in distress .
11 It was further recognised that project-related work in the library also brought benefits in terms of teacher/pupil interaction and support : you have the opportunity to get closer to them as well … to help them better because you can go round small groups and talk at length while others are getting on with something that you know they are interested in .
12 There was cleaks there was er cleaks in er in Most of the kitchens had rafters , a lot of them , and there was cleaks just specially for the hanging the pigs and the er the hams of the And then you left them until they were fairly dry , and then you had to cover them well and truly with a for all summer , because the fly would go for them , if the were n't properly salted and dry .
13 ‘ Really , it just follows the principles of long-term contract accounting , but we ought to be able to do it better than SSAP 9 practitioners because , while they apply the theory to a handful of different contracts , we are applying it to 20m policies .
14 Each and every employee should look at what they do to see if it is possible to do it better and more consistently .
15 ‘ I 'm getting to be able to read you better and better .
16 There 's a wide range of services offered by the NHS to help you through every stage of your pregnancy , including regular antenatal classes , designed to keep you well and to prepare you and your partner for the birth and for looking after your child .
17 There 's a wide range of services offered by the NHS to help you through every stage of your pregnancy , including regular ante-natal classes , designed to keep you well and to prepare you and your partner for the birth and for looking after your child .
18 It 's got to be competitively priced , you 've got to market it well and you 've got to position it well , and then you 've got to service it well .
19 I find it very difficult to breathe , but it was quite good in those days because they used to pay me well and I used to get up very early in the morning and go round with my dogs and that .
20 Advertising is such a complicated business that you may be able to assimilate it better if you have spent a few years " knocking-around " — travelling perhaps , or working in a shop or doing different kinds of jobs .
21 ‘ I 've had time to think it well and truly through in what has been the longest three quarters of an hour of my life between phone call and you getting here — and it just has to be you .
22 On the positive side ‘ three in five of the sample were discharged into accommodation judged by staff to suit them well or to be at least satisfactory ’ .
23 This practice is said to suit them better since it is probable that they will marry and leave off work and they hardly like to spend seven years out of their wage-earning life in being trained . " "
24 They want to stifle it well and truly .
25 The treatment time was chosen because patients are able to tolerate it well and variable early expulsion is avoided .
26 But he 'll be able to tell you better than me . ’
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