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

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1 No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again .
2 But as the mountains grow more popular it is clear there will be ever more people neither well enough versed in the use of map and compass nor properly equipped to deal with every situation .
3 Not as well as the General , but well enough to agree with the General 's assessment . ’
4 When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family .
5 ‘ The Vetch ’ is a really good restaurant ; so good , I ca n't afford to eat there , but I have played there on occasions and most of the staff know me well enough to stop for a drink and a chat .
6 It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education .
7 Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way .
8 ‘ Hah , Suragai , you are learning our language well enough to argue in it . ’
9 I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them .
10 The party behind , in another special , paid their engineer well enough to drive into the rear coach and smash it — they being rivals with the stranded party to serve the same area with a new railway .
11 He had had no time to acquaint himself with his fief , twice seen , and well enough served by its own .
12 So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris .
13 It will not fit our practice well enough to count as an eligible interpretation , and its normative program will be empty , because it instructs us to follow conventions that do not exist .
14 I feel I am bowling well enough to play for England again , though Ian probably was a bit unlucky .
15 ‘ My only aim is to play well enough to stay in the Test team . ’
16 This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . "
17 After Leonora 's stitches were removed , painlessly , to her relief , Penry pronounced her well enough to help with his articles , since typing proved to be another of her accomplishments .
18 Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all .
19 ‘ I 'm sorry , ma'am , but me stepmother 's got a sickly baby and she ai n't well enough to look after 'erself , never mind him .
20 The hero of modern times is the individual , and Wordsworth only knew one individual well enough to write about — himself !
21 Now well enough to speak about the accident for the first time , he says it 's amazing he survived .
22 Well just looking at .
23 Then we , well just sits in the cupboard , .
24 Erm well just go to the final question now I mean Erm when th now the flats are emptying out and they 're coming down , erm and what what do you see is gon na be the problem ?
25 Well just click on the on pop-up so you get a a new a new window .
26 er , you know , but , we might as well just say to everybody , David , Geoff , Ian
27 Well just look at Hayley
28 Well just talk to us now for a second .
29 Well just think about it .
30 And Sheridan admitted : ‘ Chris has so much ability I have got to play well just to stay in the team .
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