Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] well as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She returned Travis 's kiss warmly , then bent as well as she could to hug Jonas . |
| 2 | Dandelion swam as well as he ran , swiftly and easily . |
| 3 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 8 | With Mark Hughes stepping into the centre-back role , Tranmere defended as well as they have all season , restricting Leicester to a smattering of half chances . |
| 9 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
| 10 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 11 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
| 12 | Brought up well as I was actually born in the village and that 's where I 've come home to roost when I left the army . |
| 13 | She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival . |
| 14 | ‘ I think he ran as well as he could in the circumstances and he 'll go again at Longchamp in two weeks . ’ |
| 15 | We were pleased to have your Easter card , and hope that the year continued as well as it seems to have begun . |
| 16 | We hope the trip continued as well as it had begun , and that you got home refreshed . |
| 17 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |