Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can an athlete train and prepare so well and be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 2 | I 'll , I 'll ask this other girl who I do n't know so well but I 'm sure if she 's going that way , she , you know , she 's in that area anyway . |
| 3 | The adult you — the one watching the film — would know perfectly well that the fall had hurt and distressed you and would be able to say so . |
| 4 | It is all too easy to blame the unions , to argue that they must know perfectly well that the effect of excessive wage settlements is inflationary but that they nevertheless still seek and get them . |
| 5 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |
| 6 | You should know as well as I do the public can be a very difficult master ! ’ |
| 7 | As with all the Fairy Basslets that this species will flourish far better when kept in pairs , individuals often displaying a mere shadow of their potential . |
| 8 | There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules . |
| 9 | Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered . |
| 10 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 11 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 13 | Mr G Douglas Vaisey also suggests that others should start setting the comps : ‘ I 'm sure we [ we ? ] can do much better than Katie Mallett . ’ |
| 14 | By 1939 Europe could meet her own needs of agricultural products only in olive oil and wine ; in 1880 she could still do much better than this . |
| 15 | Even if a business was very efficient , he said , it was difficult to generate gross margins of more than 28% , whereas an efficient company in the fast-growing network market could do much better than that . |
| 16 | For them to develop properly they need guidance and a good example , and you ca n't do much better than have somebody like Fergie in your setup — somebody who has done and seen it all . ’ |
| 17 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 18 | The simple mouse-and-icons approach means putting together new forms or reports ought to be a doddle ; and for functions like queries or browsing , you ca n't do much better than the GUI . |
| 19 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 20 | Universal and Paramount may do less well than last year . |
| 21 | Note that your essay in this case is not centrally concerned with Coleridge ; in fact you will almost certainly do less well if you write about Coleridge than if you discuss a different author . |
| 22 | He could land averagely well and take-off . |
| 23 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |
| 24 | In the short-term it might work as a morale-booster for players to see a fresh face , but in the long-term I do n't think anybody else could do any better than Howard . |
| 25 | Now , if you had an opportunity of glancing at the leaflet already you will have seen that the leader for this July 's er , weekend is is Mr Henry and , I do n't think I can do any better than to spend two minutes of the time that we 've got in asking Henry if he would say a word or two of introduction to the theme for this year . |
| 26 | Yes , see who I mean I ca n't think of anybody who 's in the reserves who could do any better than the lot that are in , in at the moment . |
| 27 | You ca n't do any better than this ? |
| 28 | I do n't think a president would do any better and certainly would n't be any cheaper . ’ |
| 29 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 30 | and I went who 's applying to go on to university or education after eighteen , so I put up my hand , turned round and flipping Stuart and Danny had put their hands up and I just went oh god , they 're gon na do really well and Terry , and Terry , we 're talking Terry , Terry who has n't got a brain cell to rub together |