Example sentences of "and [vb past] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They held Grimma in awe because of the way she shouted at the men and read better than anyone . |
| 2 | Trivulzio was a condottiero , a general in a private army , and fought well and loyally for his Sforza duke , first against the French and then against the Venetians . |
| 3 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
| 4 | ‘ She was a good lass and deserved better than this . ’ |
| 5 | In 1985 his batting reached its peak at Taunton against a Warwickshire team who bowled and fielded well but who could not stop him making 322 , the highest first-class innings in England for thirty-six years ; after a slightly uncomfortable start , the second and third hundreds came off sixty-seven and sixty-three balls respectively , and only tiredness after a drive from Leeds the evening before caused his downfall . |
| 6 | Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days . |
| 7 | All our boys ran and handled well and the forwards looked quite tight . |
| 8 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |
| 9 | The one-to-one teaching usually meant that they learned more and did better than they would have in the classroom . |
| 10 | Oh I do n't , I just , I remember that er if you walked down er Road at night you 'd see him with his mortar board on and his curate by his side coming down to post the letters , and then when all these ladies were in Sammy shop one night being entertained by Sammy erm Father and his curate went by , and old Sammy turned round to the audience and said well if dressing up will get him anywhere they 'll be on the first row in heaven . |
| 11 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 12 | He curled up tight and slept better than he had done all year . |
| 13 | Midnight Storm made every yard of the running and jumped well when winning unchallenged at Nottingham recently . |
| 14 | A barter economy still prevailed widely in 1922 , so that alcohol was a money substitute that kept and travelled better than grain . |