Example sentences of "his [noun] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the battle Orc tribes came from the Forest of Shadows , swelling Azhag 's horde still further , but the Count of Ostland built his defences well and Wolfenburg held out . |
| 2 | This record sounds jaded and forced and while Ian Astbury may wish his heart to be buried at Wounded Knee , this time he 's succeeded in putting his foot well and truly in his mouth . |
| 3 | Quot homines , tot sententiae : almost every worker in the field has his pet variation , which suits him ad his computer better than any other . |
| 4 | As the man who first hired Penn for Vogue magazine and who encouraged him to create the colour still-life that launched his career as a photographer in 1943 , Liberman is also one who knows the artist and his work better than anyone . |
| 5 | likes his job better than that other one . |
| 6 | I thought that Robert had covered his tracks well and then that it was inconceivable that Lili , who knew everything , should n't have known all that her husband did . |
| 7 | ‘ The gentleman who 'd been in with her would naturally have gone back to his room well before people started stirring . ’ |
| 8 | Never had Sergeant Troy managed his sword better than today . |
| 9 | Uncapped openside flanker who took his chance well when summoned to replace Bartmann at Leicester . |
| 10 | As for Victor — you probably know his whereabouts better than we do ! ’ |
| 11 | But he was alert and sparkling , his motor well and truly turned on by the presence of Catherine Crane , and he probably was n't going to go home till he , or Catherine , dropped in their tracks . |
| 12 | Obviously he could n't talk to the police , and it would suit his book better if Vecchi was caught by someone outside his own organisation . |
| 13 | My passenger had had a lucky escape that night ; he had used his wits well and survived another fight . |
| 14 | She wondered why John had not been more open with her but now she felt that she understood his situation better and they spent a blissful week together before he left . |
| 15 | Joe took his goal well and we improved our defending in the second period . ’ |
| 16 | It seemed to Peter that everyone else had known his mother better than he had . |