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Example sentences of "well [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1	She took the flower-filled trug from Dr Neil , admired the blooms , adding briskly , ‘ Come along , McAllister ; you might as well make up for lost time , ’ and all three of them walked into the parlour , Matey and McAllister of necessity , since it was their only indoor access to the kitchen .
2	Sure , an international is intense , but if you learn how to come down from it as well build up for it , the problems simply will not develop .
3	‘ You might as well hang around for as long as you can . ’
4	Some think that the universities would do well to look outwards for reassurance about their research role : in particular to the Max Planck Institutes , which , while universally praised as centres of excellence , have structural problems of their own .
5	Well stand up for a start !
6	And er so er er I said to my friend , like me pals I said , Well look we we have n't been in the Army a year , so we 've got to be in two more years before it comes our turn our turn to be demobilized , so we just might as well sign up for a couple year , get two months leave and twenty quid , because we shall do that if we do n't .
7	When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home .
8	But the piece bubbles with character and is well laid out for the medium .
9	I thought , well I , I might as well phone in for it .
10	Well find somewhere for lunch . ’
11	A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice .
12	Montserrat itself is a major religious centre , and in addition to the religious facilities it 's well set up for tourists and climbers with a cafe , bakery , bar and essential ice cream store .
13	The cockpit is well set up for both racing and cruising
14	In addition to providing a regular preventative maintenance service they are also well set up for dealing with emergency work on a 24 hour basis .
15	I am well known here for the checkings I make of the movement of ships . ’
16	Kirchberg is well known locally for its band and throughout the season they stage many concerts ranging from the serene to good old thigh slapping and yodelling nights out .
17	She is also well known locally for the soft toys she makes for various charities .
18	Spilsby is well known locally for its Theatre which regularly puts on performances to provide musical and dramatic culture in this rural township so inaccessibly far from the big city footlights .
19	And if they had to brave that to make a phone call , they might as well press on for home .
20	As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations .
21	Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own .
22	Might as well go in for a bit because .
23	Given their weakened state , the Dutch had done well to hold out for so long .
24	And the other one , seeing as it was like September October , getting cold , my mum said well the bed 's empty , you might as well come in for the winter and stay here .
25	Might as well sit down for a few minutes might n't we ?
26	Solaris ‘ degrades performance … and is not well balanced yet for multi-processing , ’ the company says .
27	Turning well inside the box he side-stepped Birney to hammer in a shot which McConnell did well to push out for a corner .
28	It 'll be the kind of place you might walk out of as brisk and easy as a knife cutting butter , or you might very well wander about for days , well , weeks even , without finding a proper door .