Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] well [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , over the next ten years or so , the other predictions of the theory at lower energies agreed so well with experiment that , in 1979 , Salam and Weinberg were awarded the Nobel prize for physics , together with Sheldon Glashow , also at Harvard , who had suggested similar unified theories of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces .
2 Nicol and Chalmers were excellent at half-back and the centres , Lineen and Scott Hastings , played really well in midfield .
3 The UK version of the enterprise came out well before Christmas under the title Europe : A History of its Peoples ( Viking Penguin , £25 ) .
4 Here 's Tufnell again for , that one comfortable low in turn , he played pretty well in fact , but it 's down in front of his feet and then very sportingly picks down and picks the ball up gives it to Jack Russell .
5 He also thought sweeper Noel Bailie showed up well under pressure .
6 He coped quite well as manager while still captaining the team . ’
7 In her teens , she coped very well with racism .
8 The 11th Field Regiment had supported the advance through the Western Desert , past all the names the Eighth Army knew so well in victory and in retreat , and now in victory again ; through Egypt into Cyrenaica ; and through Roman North Africa to El Agheila .
9 He looked so well in hunting clothes .
10 Nu said openly that , ‘ although the London agreement looked very well on paper he strongly suspected that HMG had first of all made sure that the frontier peoples would not agree to any form of union with Burma ’ .
11 ‘ And yet , despite the Medicines Act and its regulations , CSM did little better with practolol once it had been marketed than was done without the legislation in the case of thalidomide ’ , we commented in 1980 .
12 It is the Sidgwick title , ‘ written in cooperation with Queen ’ , that did so well in hardcover .
13 Children whose mums joined the US programme did much better at school , added Anne .
14 Fairclough looked a lot happier playing alongside him , Dorigo was as Dorigish as ever , and Kelly did reasonably well at right-back .
15 I did quite well at school in the sports area , and for ages and ages I had the school record for the under-14 's javelin … .
16 We did quite well with routine seizures in the anchorages of the Bristol Channel and even better in the more sheltered confines of the South Wales ports , which in those days were rather more busy than they are today .
17 She was bright , and she did very well at school .
18 We drank very well with dinner … ’
19 The combined business held on well to market share but margins came under severe pressure following sterling 's devaluation which pushed up raw material prices .
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