Example sentences of "well [conj] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now that I have I can sense him as a personality much better than his biscuit-rich brother . |
| 2 | As a public figure hero-worshipped by countless youngsters , his drug-taking was a sad business , but few people in any field have ever used their fame better than his long-distance walks which have raised vast sums for charity . |
| 3 | Tufnell deserved better than his final return of one for 71 from 31 overs on his Test comeback after that worrying time in hospital with a burst appendix . |
| 4 | Where a discharger would consistently do better than his existing consent , standards have sometimes been tightened . |
| 5 | Ironically , he was shot for doing his job well , so well that his acute observation almost certainly saved lives . |
| 6 | Richard Harden , who batted particularly well until his fractured hand , is the vice-captain and must be a strong contender . |
| 7 | Deciding that captaincy was affecting his batting , he stood down in favour of Fletcher for a season , resuming again in 1989 when the county did well but his own form was fairly ordinary . |
| 8 | He owned half the houses in Page Street as well as his flourishing transport concern . |
| 9 | Fifteen years earlier Philip 's troops had attacked his father 's village and razed it to the ground , wiping out in one night Eudo 's brothers and sisters , as well as his young wife and child . |
| 10 | We all admired his integrity as well as his great knowledge of techniques and painters of the past . |
| 11 | This is of course having your cake and eating it , an achievement to which Kingston owed the enormous popularity of his naval as well as his other yarns . |
| 12 | " Policemen , " once wrote the author Michael Gilbert , whose police procedurals you would do well to read as well as his other crime stories , " did not catch murderers by taking thought . |
| 13 | After the return of the ‘ secluded members ’ in February 1660 , Deane lost his military commission as well as his other offices . |
| 14 | His lifelong adherence to the principles of tolerance and freedom of thought , as well as his strong aversion to dogma and to any formalized critical doctrine , stemmed partly from his Nonconformist upbringing and beliefs . |
| 15 | JIM WATT 'S reputation as a TV commentator has been rightly earned as much for his honest appraisals of boxers as well as his technical expertise . |
| 16 | At Oxford he had many friends in religious and artistic circles , chief among them Robert Bridges [ q.v. ] , his trusted confidant and poetic sounding-board for the rest of his life , as well as his first editor , who put his poems before the world . |
| 17 | Sadly , the 1954 season saw Richards forced to retire from the saddle by injury ; so the 1953 Derby was his last ride in the race as well as his first victory in it . |
| 18 | As well as his usual diet , Alan had to consume the following each day : |
| 19 | But none of it would have been possible without Cecil 's political influence and contacts , as well as his official revenue . |
| 20 | But the German manager has been lifted by the recent club form of 31-year-old captain , Lothar Matthaeus — absent in Sweden due to a serious knee operation — as well as his clubmate Olaf Thon 's successful switch from midfielder to libero at Bayern Munich . |
| 21 | Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side . |
| 22 | The more serious the incident , the more likely it is that a judge 's professional neutrality and independence , as well as his legal training in taking evidence and establishing the facts , will be sought to command public confidence . |
| 23 | When he learnt that Bobby played the trumpet , he promptly took him to Stravinsky 's Petrushka and shared with him his passion for Sibelius and Bach as well as his fanatical admiration for Fats Waller , Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway . |
| 24 | One night , in a state of despair , he drank several cans of lager with friends from college — and on the way home , expressed years of frustration against his parents ' beliefs ( as well as his deep need for their love ) by throwing stones at the stained glass windows . |
| 25 | The oriental concentrated on keeping the big amber-eyed beast squarely to his fore , banishing from his mind the pain of his badly bitten hand and forearm , as well as his wounded leg . |
| 26 | ‘ Dalian took his goal brilliantly , ’ said Villa chief Ron Atkinson , who bought the England ‘ B ’ man for Sheffield Wednesday as well as his current club . |
| 27 | Seldes , who was to become Chaplin 's greatest booster in America as well as his personal friend , wrote of how ‘ you have to go to squalid streets and disreputable neighbourhoods if you want to see Chaplin regularly ’ . |
| 28 | As well as his ordinary business , the person addressed is expected to say Matins of the office of the Virgin and intersperse the day with prayers . |
| 29 | So lawyer C took on a notoriously troublesome client — and indeed , found a satisfactory way of handling the client himself , as well as his many debts and difficulties ! |
| 30 | As well as his chemical discoveries he had made a reputation for himself from his electrical investigations . |