Example sentences of "well [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyone reading that newspaper article last week might well think we 've had some sort of reconciliation , and have got together again , ’ he pointed out . |
| 2 | ‘ I should damn well think I did n't approve . |
| 3 | Well make her speak . |
| 4 | er well metal you see there look |
| 5 | Someone who tells me an apparently irrelevant fact may well want me to deduce a hidden inference in it , a proposition they prefer not to make explicit . |
| 6 | Probably most parents subscribe to this view , and while they may not deliberately choose particular methods of child care to bring about a specified long-term outcome , their belief in the association may well make them feel an added responsibility . |
| 7 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
| 8 | He was advised by Charity to brace up because the effect on the Colonel of tonight 's little scene might well make him change his mind . |
| 9 | Anything but a lucky accident might well make him look an idiot . |
| 10 | It was her own cottage and it was all she had to show for 20 years of marriage so , she reasoned , she might as well make it look as good as possible . |
| 11 | I look at the scrap heap , scrap for that then , might as well make it look as good as possible , even if I get two five for it , I 'm sticking two , two grand in there , well we 'll make it , we 'll stick the lot in the joint account and keep it there |
| 12 | Can I ask you please Andrew , how well has he worked out for you ? |
| 13 | Oh it , well has he dropped something down there ? |
| 14 | Well has she grown to love him cos of his money ? |
| 15 | Well has she gone out with her ? |
| 16 | Well has she tried any of those recipes she took home ? |
| 17 | This week the Science Policy Research Unit , stung by the attacks , withdrew a press release announcing the report and titled Britain 's biggest telescope — a failure and replaced it with one titled Britain 's biggest telescope — how well has it performed ? |
| 18 | Well has it got money in already , that purse ? |
| 19 | Well say we like to have fun at our meal times . |
| 20 | Well say she owes them nine thousand anyway . |
| 21 | Well say you spent fifty quid on booze |
| 22 | Well say you get twenty eight and a half . |
| 23 | Well I still think that well say you have a big massive thing and , and say it 'd take a hundred people mm er I suppose the bigger it is the more economical it is . |
| 24 | I tell you what it was , it was Samsung , if you 've a little bit of tape and you end at beginning and you want it , well say you wanted to tape to test a little bit say off telly or |
| 25 | Well say I moved and lived in Gambia . |
| 26 | Well d' ya remember the first party we had ? |
| 27 | Well D' ya know you get daft ! |
| 28 | Well d' ya know what I have n't to your place yet , the , fireplace . |
| 29 | He was another character er there was er I remember they used to have a lot of socials and things at the church you know , it was very well attended I suppose in those days . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think about the age of the role , if a play is well written it tells an actor what to do , ’ said Mr Rickman , who is 45 . |