Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] well [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrestled to control himself , but the faint hope of convincing Mr Graham propelled the words irrepressibly from his lips : ‘ Actually , ’ he said as his boss opened the door , ‘ our banks have done rather well out of the debt crisis … ’ |
| 2 | Certainly , it is no secret that , in proportional terms , Scotland has done rather well out of the arrangements . |
| 3 | Indeed , in recent years has done rather well out of its visits to Brussels by both politicians and officers . |
| 4 | THERE is a degree of planetary turmoil to contend with in November although , because much of it is focused in a sign entirely compatible with your own , you may do rather well out of the situation . |
| 5 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 6 | These longer-term implications are unlikely to impinge on the development industry , which has done extremely well out of UDC designations . |
| 7 | There 's no specific area that I can lay my finger on to explain why West Indian kids underachieve … what is inevitable is that a lot of West Indian children particularly the bright ones will do fairly well up to either the beginning or the middle of the fourth year , and for some peculiar reason their progress will fall off towards the end of the fifth year . |
| 8 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 9 | Morgan must have done quite well out of his business , being able to afford the rent on the entire house . |
| 10 | ‘ Though after last night … ’ his glance raked her face ‘ … maybe you 'd have done quite well out of the deal if you 'd bothered to follow through . ’ |
| 11 | Something to do with som something to do with a cotton mill in Paisley and it was s s s W I c just can nae recall what it was but it was a great big trial , there was a And er this this lawyer he had done quite well out of this case but it was a quite That must have been in er about nineteen twenty nineteen thirties about nineteen thirty two . |
| 12 | To be fair , there is no doubt that with luck , commonsense and sensible advice many people have done very well out of privatisation shares . |
| 13 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 14 | They 've done very well out of that parcel of land that was given . |
| 15 | Things are not going so well over at Castlereagh Park either just at the moment with Ards manager Paul Malone possibly landing himself in trouble with the authorities . |
| 16 | A minute later he saw it flying past well over to his right at a height of about two hundred feet . |
| 17 | What does n't react very well out of that lot ? |
| 18 | A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain . |
| 19 | One married couple in particular expected to do very well out of it . |
| 20 | You seem to have been doing rather well out of those . ’ |
| 21 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 22 | Or are they just greedy and saying well we 're doing quite well out of rent reduction , but if we , you know if we the landlords , we 're gon na get some more ? |
| 23 | He reached for a half loaf of bread with both hands and said , by the six hairs of his grandmother 's beard , they were doing very well out of all this . |
| 24 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
| 25 | Erm but without that as long as it 's the masses who are committing this it 's , it 's okay because you , you need that in order to create the When it 's gone too far , when it 's counter-productive in a , not for the individual middl poor peasant because he 's doing very well out of it , but in terms of the movement as a whole , you begin to stop it . |
| 26 | And the answer of course is that it depends how much you make God like yourself , and that 's a test that Milton does n't come altogether well out of . |
| 27 | There was nothing exceptional about such favours , but the Albret and their connections did especially well out of them . |
| 28 | The male red-wings do quite well out of this arrangement since they father most of their female 's offspring — most , not all , since the male can not keep his eye on all his females simultaneously and some will happily mate with males in the territories next door . |
| 29 | On the whole , the cats did quite well out of number forty-three . |
| 30 | He did quite well out of it during the last year . |