Example sentences of "do well [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish they had done better with the peacockery . |
| 2 | I would have liked to have done better in the League this season , but I can see light at the end of the tunnel now . |
| 3 | Southern readers might do better with the edition covering their own counties . |
| 4 | Especially if , mind you , he might not be able to do anything , it 's like I say you you 've got your hot water and it 's probably a job he can do better in the week , one night as long as he says it 's safe to use and you 're not gon na blow the tank up on yourself ! |
| 5 | I wanted to fight back and do well for the team |
| 6 | One party can only do well at the expense of another , in competition for resources , recognition etc . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure I can do well in the downhill , ’ Boris continued . |
| 8 | ‘ If we do n't do well in the exam , if we do n't get anything here , ’ Sheila blurted out , as they said goodbye outside the front garden while Moran waited with the engine running to drive Maggie to the station , ‘ you may see us in London soon enough . ’ |
| 9 | Is my hon. Friend aware that high levels of manufacturing output lead to high levels of exports and that the Dover ferry industry has done well under the Government out of high levels of exports ? |
| 10 | Old Gustav may still have some old-time socialist ideals about the rights of man , but the general feeling is that Manfred would have done well on the faculty at Belsen . ’ |
| 11 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 12 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 13 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 14 | It was a Saturday night in February , and Jonathon Blagrave had done well at the town 's market . |
| 15 | Old Lillian Tibbs had done well at the Market . |
| 16 | ‘ Trading has been difficult , but we have done well through-out the recession ’ , he said . |
| 17 | You 've done well by the lady , and she has done well by you . |
| 18 | He had done well by the contest DeVore had wagered five thousand yuan on each game and a further ten thousand on the tournament . |
| 19 | Crusaders have done well in the opening two cup competitions and that 's good news for Kirk . |
| 20 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 21 | Oxford as well have traditionally done well in the Cup erm Ray , they beat Henley by thirty points , is there any cause for concern for you ? |
| 22 | After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ? |
| 23 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 24 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution . |
| 26 | Nina Holloway is another hoping to do well in the classic , she 's from Warborough in Oxfordshire . |
| 27 | It was widely believed that City were no more guilty than a great many other clubs keen to do well in the emergency competitions . |
| 28 | actually Galatasaray and other turkish teams seem to do well in the european cups from time to time … i do not have the stat 's right here ( or anywhere else ; - ) ) — but i 'm quite sure if you check it out you will see that G. have knocked out some other ‘ great teams ’ before Scum . |
| 29 | The consequence was " chaos " resulting from " the absence of any broad general basis of education , such as English offers " , and from the lack of an English " compactly enough built to do well in the scramble " . |
| 30 | ‘ Ever since my father got as far as the fourth fence when leading the field on Zimulator in L'Escargot 's year in 1975 , I have wanted to do well in the race , ’ he told me . |