Example sentences of "well [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 2 | With hindsight , it would have better still to lock in a few more gains . |
| 3 | I said you 'd be better off to book into a guest house |
| 4 | Not as well as the General , but well enough to agree with the General 's assessment . ’ |
| 5 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 6 | ‘ The Vetch ’ is a really good restaurant ; so good , I ca n't afford to eat there , but I have played there on occasions and most of the staff know me well enough to stop for a drink and a chat . |
| 7 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |
| 8 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 9 | ‘ Hah , Suragai , you are learning our language well enough to argue in it . ’ |
| 10 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 11 | The party behind , in another special , paid their engineer well enough to drive into the rear coach and smash it — they being rivals with the stranded party to serve the same area with a new railway . |
| 12 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 13 | It will not fit our practice well enough to count as an eligible interpretation , and its normative program will be empty , because it instructs us to follow conventions that do not exist . |
| 14 | I feel I am bowling well enough to play for England again , though Ian probably was a bit unlucky . |
| 15 | ‘ My only aim is to play well enough to stay in the Test team . ’ |
| 16 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 17 | After Leonora 's stitches were removed , painlessly , to her relief , Penry pronounced her well enough to help with his articles , since typing proved to be another of her accomplishments . |
| 18 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ma'am , but me stepmother 's got a sickly baby and she ai n't well enough to look after 'erself , never mind him . |
| 20 | The hero of modern times is the individual , and Wordsworth only knew one individual well enough to write about — himself ! |
| 21 | Now well enough to speak about the accident for the first time , he says it 's amazing he survived . |
| 22 | And Sheridan admitted : ‘ Chris has so much ability I have got to play well just to stay in the team . |
| 23 | If I ring and invent some excuse she knows me too well not to see through it . |
| 24 | Partnerships will do well not to accede to requests for financial support for the bread and butter resources of schools . |
| 25 | Well still to come in part two we have all the sporting action including the weigh-in for the boat race . |
| 26 | Perverse unreasonable Pamela , begone from my sight and know as well how to behave in a hopeful prospect as in a distressful state . |
| 27 | Cassie had heard many shades of emotion expressed by Johnny 's voice , indeed it was a powerful weapon and one he knew only too well how to use to good effect , but never had she heard him use the particular tone with which he now addressed his wife . |
| 28 | That 's right yes , er vivisection is erm well actually to do with the cutting up of animals is n't it , testing , things like cosmetics , medicine medicines and so on , on animals and if you 're anti to be that you 're against it . |