Example sentences of "[verb] well [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may find that you sleep better than before ( and can throw away any sleeping pills you may have been taking ) , that you have got rid of that nagging headache or that the muscles in your neck and shoulders suddenly feel warm and relaxed . |
| 2 | Blake believed that if he could understand all aspects of his horses , he could make them happy and motivate them to work better and to be more successful in competition . |
| 3 | Billy refused to allow this to affect his performances in the Palace goal and he never played better than in his last two League games for us at the end of the 1931–32 season . |
| 4 | They have their ways of doing things — you might think some of these could be done better or in a different way . |
| 5 | one is made better because of what 's happening inside his mind , but it has the opposite effect on someone else . ’ |
| 6 | But the paradox is that if both sides were to disarm , they would both do better than by both arming , because each prefers mutual disarmament ( 3 , 3 ) to the arms race ( 2 , 2 ) . |
| 7 | Yesterday he was testing with the team in Estoril where he said : ‘ There is nothing I would like better than to be back in Grand Prix racing . ’ |
| 8 | Everything would be going well except for that damn business [ of the lost wallet ] . |
| 9 | — After the end of the reaction period , the hair should be rinsed well and in depth before starting on the desired hair-do . |
| 10 | It was said that Stoddart never played better than in 1890 when representing the South against the North — he scored 115 out of 169 — as Attewell , Barnes , Briggs , and Peel bowled against him . |
| 11 | Did you know that there is nothing they like better than to be starved ? |
| 12 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 13 | Recently , fashion has been very safe , but now it 's becoming more aggressive , it 's making more statements , and the French are going to do well because of that , ’ says Guy Tolson . |
| 14 | She wanted to do well because of Gesner . |
| 15 | Prof King predicts that those crossbreds will perform well because of the Norwegian selection procedure . |
| 16 | ( implies " he should have known better than to … " ) |
| 17 | ‘ Clubs will get on the box , ’ he says , ‘ if they are doing well and at home to one of the big boys . |
| 18 | South east also doing well and in the south east , looking at the it seems to be the case , one ca n't put too strong an el too strong erm a sort of weight on it but it seems to be the case that in the south east it 's the food , drink and tobacco sector and chemicals which are tending to , to lead the way there erm Scotland also strong export demand . |
| 19 | Everything and everybody worked well and on cue . |
| 20 | Though Glasgow Polytechnic required the support of the safety net , its vice-principal , John Phillips , argued that it had competed well when with its Queen 's College partner and emerged as one of Scotland 's leading three or four universities . |
| 21 | ‘ They have adapted well and without complaint to an entirely alien environment and their dedication and enthusiasm to the task is to be commended , ’ said Bob . |
| 22 | However , the Irishman countered well and with the scores at eight each the Dubliner eventually won on a count back of 30–28 . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , in both experiments there was a clear tendency for risky exemplars of risky junctions to be recognized well but for risky exemplars of less risky junctions to be recognized badly . |
| 24 | They need flat water to perform well and on no account should they be taken into waves , since , not only are they difficult to manoeuvre well , but they are also liable to snap because of their length . |
| 25 | All went well but for a small hitch . |
| 26 | All went well until about half way through the demonstration when fumes from some hot oil wafted into the smoke detector above the hob and set off the hotel 's fire alarm . |
| 27 | Eurodisney and its advisers , SG Warburg , can feel confident that the issue will go well because of the interest already shown in France , where half the £607m of shares will be issued . |
| 28 | Martin Luther , whose own convictions had been tempered and proved like the finest steel , knew well that in the hour of trial each man must have his own convictions , or he will find himself with none . |
| 29 | It looks splendid , it reads well and as a coffee-table volume , worth dipping in to regularly , it is great stuff . |
| 30 | Salisbury again toiled in vain , but Munton commanded respect and Lewis bowled better than of late , and England 's self-respect was retrieved to some extent . |