Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] well as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should know as well as I do the public can be a very difficult master ! ’ |
| 2 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 3 | She returned Travis 's kiss warmly , then bent as well as she could to hug Jonas . |
| 4 | Quite stiff for the grade , with several moves that leave you wondering if you are climbing as well as you thought ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dandelion swam as well as he ran , swiftly and easily . |
| 7 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would be hard to justify living as well as you do while paying only a pittance for the privilege . ’ |
| 10 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 11 | We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year . |
| 12 | We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year . |
| 13 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner . |
| 15 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |
| 16 | Third , you have to believe that they can do as well as you . |
| 17 | " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics . |
| 18 | Our hospitals are so short of cash thanks to the shortsightedness of the Government that it 's a wonder hospitals function as well as they do . |
| 19 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 20 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 21 | Often he is afraid that these jobs will not be done , or not done as well as he would do them . |
| 22 | We played as well as we 've played all season last weekend and a match like this is the best way to end our league season , ’ said coach Tommy Dowens . |
| 23 | But by the end of the decade they had absorbed the lessons learned by the other teams , and had accepted that , if they played as well as they could , they could win . |
| 24 | Between them come Stravinsky 's Dumbarton Oaks concerto and Frank Martin 's Petite Symphonie Concertante , a work that grows in stature with every hearing , especially when conducted and played as well as it is here . |
| 25 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 26 | Not that that would stop the terrorists from acting pretty well as they pleased . |
| 27 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , you will do very well as you are , child , ’ she replied . |
| 29 | ‘ No man practises so well as he writes . |
| 30 | Who and how many people we imprison , for how long and in what conditions are questions that politicians and sentencers must answer ; those in the prisons must make it work as well as they can . |