Example sentences of "have do well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oscar Orbos has done well as Mrs Aquino 's aide , but at 40 may be too young for the big job . |
| 2 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 3 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 4 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 5 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 6 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 7 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 8 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 9 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
| 10 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 11 | Oh gosh , you would n't have done better than that , that 's for sure . |
| 12 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 13 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 14 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 15 | Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . |
| 16 | Motion will have to do better than this if he seriously intends his series of novels to capture the feel of a period . |
| 17 | Taff approached them with the remark , ‘ You will have to do better than that , Boyos . |
| 18 | You 'll have to do better than that , son . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that , love . |
| 20 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that , ’ he said huskily . |
| 23 | You 'll have to do better than that . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that ! ’ |
| 25 | Er , now look Barbara , I know you have n't been in the job as long as the other two , but er , really you 're going to have to do better than this I 'm afraid . |
| 26 | Of course there 's no one more supportive when the chips are down , and no one is prouder of you when you 've done well than your old mum … . |
| 27 | I mean th th they 've done better than anybody than everything else , because as rates have come down , I can go back and see a client and the National Savings has fallen , and the building society 's fallen , but the , the annuity 's still plugging away . |
| 28 | We 've done better than most , but our membership levels have suffered as well . |
| 29 | So I got up then and I spoke to the room you know and we were more or less helping one another out and I thought the Chairman had done well when he said erm they do n't speak er Welsh for fancy or anything they use it as every day . |
| 30 | Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted . |