Example sentences of "[pron] [be] do well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
| 2 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 3 | She said I was doing well until I fucked off |
| 4 | ‘ You are doing well where you are , Paul ; I am proud of you . |
| 5 | ‘ You are doing well where you are , Paul ; I am proud of you . |
| 6 | 17–20 You are doing better than average , but you need to concentrate on balancing your activity/relaxation quotient . |
| 7 | If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests , then major land reform is essential . |
| 8 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 9 | But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously . |
| 10 | So he is doing well if he genuinely feels no lusting after earthly things but such a burning love of God that it is the only thing he wants to talk about , the only activity he wishes to pursue ; and if anything which furthers it , however apparently difficult , is easily done , and any hardship suffered gladly with genuinely indestructible inner joy . |
| 11 | It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market . |
| 12 | Its profitable career showed that it was doing better than the trading companies launched in Charles 's reign . |
| 13 | he was doing well till buggered off . |
| 14 | For the first time , Hank did not feel a pang of envy at his friend 's being already at work ; he felt he was doing better than any young policeman could hope to do . |