Example sentences of "[verb] do well [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oscar Orbos has done well as Mrs Aquino 's aide , but at 40 may be too young for the big job . |
| 2 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 3 | Any winged craft has got to do better than Mach 5 to get into space . |
| 4 | Having said that , we would agree that in the past 25 years Oxford has tended to do better than Cambridge on several fronts . |
| 5 | They continue to do well as stand-ins for Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal , both shooting 70s to put the hosts on 12 under 276 . |
| 6 | The reason girls appeared to do better than boys at age eleven was due to the earlier onset of puberty in females , with its accompanying accelerated maturation . |
| 7 | But other clubs facing similar conditions had done better than Leeds . |
| 8 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
| 9 | Anne wanted to do better than Gilbert . |