Example sentences of "well for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boro battled well for a hard-earned point in a poor game and they remain six points behind Cambridge but with four games in hand . |
| 2 | Paul Merson is playing with a maturity which augers well for a rich future to an England career that started so well in Czechoslovakia last month . |
| 3 | When Bernard came out of hospital he did not walk very well for a good long time . |
| 4 | All of this does not mitigate well for a prospective owner to take on the airframe in an easily-delivered and/or operational manner . |
| 5 | He finished fourth to Baies and The Thinker at Haydock last week , running well for a long way . |
| 6 | Supertop ran well for a long way in the season 's opener at Doncaster . |
| 7 | I prefer the consistent VIKING ROCKET , who ran well for a long way behind Captain Dibble in the Scottish National at Ayr . |
| 8 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 9 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 10 | This race came only two months after he had run well for a long way when leading the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury and Gaselee told me , ‘ He appeared to love the Newbury race and we were delighted with his performance at that time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 12 | Moving off , before moving off always use your mirrors , but look round as well for a final check , signal as necessary before moving out , move off only when you can do so safely without making the road user change speed or direction right |
| 13 | Hood : a well-shaped hood which closes down well for a snug fit . |
| 14 | The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans . |
| 15 | All went well for a short while , but then his childhood respiratory problems returned . |
| 16 | Cost control will serve us well for a single year but it wo n't give us a company that will survive into the next century . |
| 17 | ‘ If he is n't , he can swear pretty well for a dead person , ’ said Sacco , sagging to the floor . |