Example sentences of "be do well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 2 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
| 3 | If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests , then major land reform is essential . |
| 4 | Firms within the zones seem to have been doing better than equivalent companies elsewhere . |
| 5 | Mr Parrott , who has a Gunners tatoo on his right forearm , said : ‘ My Sunday League side has been doing better than Arsenal . |
| 6 | ‘ You are doing well where you are , Paul ; I am proud of you . |
| 7 | ‘ You are doing well where you are , Paul ; I am proud of you . |
| 8 | But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously . |
| 9 | Furniture and carpet stores are doing better than most , as are grocers , chemists , footwear and leather shops . |
| 10 | 17–20 You are doing better than average , but you need to concentrate on balancing your activity/relaxation quotient . |
| 11 | Consequently the animals are doing better than average . |
| 12 | And there 's been quite a bit of success in in that area both of the newspaper companies er , are doing better than last year and er Longmans for instance expect er expect their operating cash flow erm their working capital rather to be lower this year than last year by by year end . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 14 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 15 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 16 | Mm , it is , but it 's still not being done well as |
| 17 | So he is doing well if he genuinely feels no lusting after earthly things but such a burning love of God that it is the only thing he wants to talk about , the only activity he wishes to pursue ; and if anything which furthers it , however apparently difficult , is easily done , and any hardship suffered gladly with genuinely indestructible inner joy . |
| 18 | If there are no more before April , Mr Major is doing better than expected . |
| 19 | It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market . |
| 20 | he was doing well till buggered off . |
| 21 | She said I was doing well until I fucked off |
| 22 | For the first time , Hank did not feel a pang of envy at his friend 's being already at work ; he felt he was doing better than any young policeman could hope to do . |
| 23 | Its profitable career showed that it was doing better than the trading companies launched in Charles 's reign . |
| 24 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |