Example sentences of "[adv] well [conj] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon afterwards in 1838 he was appointed engineer and manager on the construction of the Box tunnel on the Great Western Railway , acquitting himself so well that he attracted the favourable notice of Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] , so that on the completion of the tunnel he joined the engineering staff of the GWR . |
| 2 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
| 3 | If he runs the country as well as he ran the campaign we 'll be alright . ’ |
| 4 | Throughout his successful career in which he won 24 Scottish caps , Macari was pursued by a cruel terracing joke ; if he could pass the bookies as well as he passes a ball he would be a millionaire in ten years . |
| 5 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 6 | Robert , especially , knows this , for he knows the style of my speech as well as he knows the rhythm of my walk or the vocabulary of my gestures . |
| 7 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
| 8 | ‘ Come in , ’ she invited , knowing full well that he had no intention of delivering any of his remarks from where he stood anyhow . |
| 9 | He realized full well that he stood no chance of getting further reinforcements , and anyway he would not have time to train them . |
| 10 | We got on very well and he has an excellent sense of humour . ’ |