Example sentences of "[vb past] well for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They were unanimously exuberant in their appreciation of Mr Murray 's speech which , by assuring the future of the community radio station , also augured well for the progress of the city .
2 That augured well for the day .
3 THE number and value of management buy-outs and management buy-ins in 1992 augured well for the future of the market , according to research published yesterday , though the number of transactions increased only very slightly over the total for 1991 , writes Bill Millar .
4 Tradition had it that if the corn-dolly reached the following year 's harvest intact , it augured well for the farm in the year to come .
5 This year began well for the zoo with the successful hatching of 56 penguin eggs and the successful rearing of these chicks to maturity .
6 It boded well for the night .
7 The welcome he received on the factory tour obviously boded well for the by-election as ten days later both candidates were elected .
8 This despoliation was greater than any perpetrated after 1453 by the Turks who , in general , cared well for the structure and revered it as a mosque .
9 All went well for the outing until at one particularly reverent moment , the young son of the party stood on his seat and inquired with a loud voice : ‘ Dad , where are all the hypocrites ? ’
10 The opening campaigns of the war went well for the French .
11 The system ran well for the sake of the Church .
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