Example sentences of "[vb past] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Big Black got better known , they acquired a reputation for oddness . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're very sorry about poor 'Annah passin' on , so we thought we 'ad better come to pay our respects . ’ |
| 3 | He was a proud , caring president of the Cricketers ' Association , especially during the difficult Packer years , the implications of which he read better than any . |
| 4 | They held Grimma in awe because of the way she shouted at the men and read better than anyone . |
| 5 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
| 6 | It is also very fast , especially using the parallel cable option , and gave transfer rates in our test setup that averaged better than 4 megabytes per minute . |
| 7 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 8 | I expected better from someone half my age . |
| 9 | Cinema audiences in the 1920s expected better and better things and cinema-going became part and parcel of their social betterment . |
| 10 | Disgraceful accusations were made by Opposition Members , including , I regret to say , the Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment , the hon. Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) , from whom I expected better . |
| 11 | Lose a ride to one of your best friends , on the horse people had said you rode better than anyone else — that too was racing . |
| 12 | Despite the pain , he rode better and harder than ever and in the last five races stood on the podium four times and came within 12 seconds of his first GP win . |
| 13 | The first is that Luftwaffe defences became better , too , and that caused a high price to be paid in terms of casualties . |
| 14 | Gradually his playing became better than his singing . |
| 15 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 16 | The Department of Employment itself took the view in 1988 that evidence was lacking on the extent of age barriers in employment and argued that the problems facing older workers would disappear as the demographic changes became better understood by employers . |
| 17 | In the three years that followed , the Danzig Nazis became better at governing themselves and at developing strategies to exploit the increasing economic difficulties of the Free City . |
| 18 | Householders unaware of Sabbath conventions caused much discomfort to their young guests until they became better informed about Jewish religious observances . |
| 19 | She later became better known as Lord Nelson 's mistress , Lady Hamilton . |
| 20 | Anne was approaching her thirteenth birthday and King Edward considered it time that she and his son Prince Richard , then ten years of age , became better acquainted . |
| 21 | Unfortunately there have been presenters who became better known for hitting the headlines than their ability to turn washing up bottles into handy household objects . |
| 22 | At the same time both the army and the navy became better equipped . |
| 23 | Firstly one should note that it was not until about 1846 when Liouville published two of his papers that Galois ' work became better known . |
| 24 | The tsarist threat receded in 1867 , when Russia sold Alaska to the United States , and the doctrine subsequently became better known for its challenge to the perceived intention of the European Holy Alliance to help Spain reconquer its former colonies . |
| 25 | His name and achievements became better known to the general public , however , in the sphere of lighter music : in operetta rather than in opera , and above all in the stage works of Franz Lehár , in which he charmed thousands by his sympathetic tenor quality and by the grace and variety of his vocal inflections . |
| 26 | One son , John Emes ( 1763–1808 ) , was an artist and engraver , but later became better known , with his wife Rebecca , as a goldsmith . |
| 27 | A whole series of practices and expedients which had been widely used as an organised diplomatic system began to take shape fell into disuse as it became better established . |
| 28 | At the same time diplomatic archives , inevitably growing in size , became better organised , as did some of the libraries which were now a part of all major foreign offices . |
| 29 | Perhaps they succeeded better than they deserved . |
| 30 | I considered setting the whin bushes alight , but the flowers always looked cheerful when they came out , and the bushes smelled better fresh than burned , so I did n't . |