Example sentences of "was do well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreams was doing well but luxuries like these were still in the distant future . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | he was doing well till buggered off . |
| 4 | No-one would judge an overseas subsidiary purely on its cash flow , because if it was doing well and growing it would n't be sending much money home , whereas if it was in decline and its working capital requirement was decreasing , it would become cash positive . |
| 5 | Contrary advice came in from Nashville where the film was doing well and where the upshot seemed to be that ‘ the only way to sell Red Salute is as a gay romantic comedy ’ . |
| 6 | She continued to try to convince Mrs Singh that although Jeetinder was in the bottom set he was doing well and was not ‘ the bottom of the bottom set ’ . |
| 7 | He said the company had an overdraft , but it was doing well and Roger Tucker just needed some security to show his superiors and to hold for three weeks . |
| 8 | And then it came turn and er was er speaking quite well when this girl behind us this wee well along side us was thumbs up on him all the time you know he was doing well and that . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Mr Ryder 's business was doing well and he appeared happy at home . ’ |
| 10 | She said I was doing well until I fucked off |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Its profitable career showed that it was doing better than the trading companies launched in Charles 's reign . |
| 13 | 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 . |