Example sentences of "had do well [subord] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted .
3 Mama Cass had done better than any of them with her solo career , but then tragically died so soon afterwards .
4 But other clubs facing similar conditions had done better than Leeds .
5 Davout told Thiercelin he had done better than expected , which was generous praise from him , especially as the marshal 's own enquiries had been unproductive .
6 The man who said he saw the ‘ green shoots ’ of recovery nearly two years ago claimed that under Tory rule the country had done better than many of its competitors .
7 She had done better than that and taken it to a jeweller to be plated and put into a mount so it could hang on her chain .
8 He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority .
9 It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers .
10 But he had to do better than that .
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