Example sentences of "do well [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her feet hurt a good deal , and she thought , though not wishing to be ungrateful , that she might have done better without the boots . |
| 2 | Rose Hill could do well in the women 's event now that last year 's champion from Denmark , Connie Hansen , has decided not to take part this time . |
| 3 | When Pringle swung across the line to be lbw , England had done well in the conditions to score 203 . |
| 4 | Neither the neo-Nazi thugs nor the Republicans who threaten to do well at the polls next year point to anything like a return to the days of Hitler . |
| 5 | If we 're going to do any more quizzes this is the sort of thing we 're going to need to know to do well on the sports sections . |
| 6 | At the SCG I was impressed with the way the South African pace bowlers tightened line and length after somewhat loose opening period of play no doubt caused by first-time tension and over-eagerness to do well for the folks back home . |
| 7 | Do you think that teachers really do n't expect them to do well in the sciences and perhaps even positively discourage them from going into science ? |
| 8 | Team manager of Kazakstan says the weather is hot , but his riders are doing well on the climbs . |
| 9 | After a string of by-elections in which the Liberals had done badly — they always do better under the Tories , especially in the South — and in the wake of the Thorpe affair , the Liberals desperately needed respectability . |
| 10 | I was brought up in one myself , but it is true that girls on the whole do better in the subjects traditionally regarded as male subjects in single sex schools . |
| 11 | He did well for the likes of Cammell Laird and other plant closures , and has done well for the people at Rock Ferry . ’ |
| 12 | Numerous independents stood and did well in the elections . |
| 13 | Jacobite candidates did well in the elections to Anne 's last two Parliaments , although it must be remembered that Tory candidates in general did well , so that the absolute rise in the number of Jacobite MPs did not necessarily reflect a relative rise in the strength of Jacobitism within the Tory party as a whole . |
| 14 | In the nearby town of Thame , Lord Williams ( who did well from the pickings to be had in that century ) founded his own grammar school : Oxfordshire lost one and gained one . |
| 15 | A successful gene will be one that does well in the environments provided by these other genes that it is likely to meet in lots of different bodies . |