Example sentences of "[adv] well [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that this is because they do everything so well that they do not get excessive pitching movements in their training stall recoveries . |
| 2 | If this happens , Tit for Tat individuals , cooperating with one another in cosy little local enclaves , may prosper so well that they grow from small local clusters into larger local clusters . |
| 3 | Alvar Salvadores and his companions bestirred themselves so well that they drove the enemy to their tents , making great mortality among them , and then they turned back , whereat my Cid was well pleased ; but Alvar Salvadores went on , hacking and hewing all before him , for he thought the ladies were looking on , and he pressed forward so far , that being without succour he was taken . |
| 4 | Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all . |
| 5 | Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ? |
| 6 | Some visually handicapped children will overcome their difficulties so well that they are indistinguishable from their fully sighted classmates , but the effort needed may have a cost for them that is not always appreciated . |
| 7 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 8 | On scheduled passages , of course , you ca n't always do this , but Mr. Andrew and his father before him knew the trade so well that they generally managed it . |
| 9 | ‘ Then when I met John Leguizamo , we clicked so well that they used to call us Laurel and Hardy . |
| 10 | They never wear out because I look after them so well and they stay young while I … |
| 11 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 12 | On a national scale , the numerically and financially important small hotel businesses , which play a vital role in the provision of the national stock of tourist accommodation may be performing less well than they could . |
| 13 | However , it seems to me that there is something a little perverse in leaving me your notes on the making of the Big Glass when you must have known perfectly well that they contained material I would be certain to find offensive . |
| 14 | And the other nice thing is , because know who you are they will tend to accept your cheques , because they know perfectly well that they can get hold of you if they have to ! |
| 15 | He knew perfectly well that they were not very good prizes and that he would have done better to lay out his money at Woolworth 's , but he did not wish to hear Emmie telling him so . |
| 16 | It is because that fear exists that some home owners know perfectly well that they have the Government over a barrel . |
| 17 | ‘ But you know perfectly well that they have portholes , ’ retorted the officer . |
| 18 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 19 | ‘ All could turn out well when they come back tomorrow and we talk the matter over . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure Miranda 's looking after things really well while they 're gone , ’ said Xanthe , giving her a steady look . |
| 21 | I did n't give them names , which was just as well because they both had to go to be killed . |
| 22 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 23 | The BBC believe that no one does sport as well as they do — and they may be right . |
| 24 | But by the end of the decade they had absorbed the lessons learned by the other teams , and had accepted that , if they played as well as they could , they could win . |
| 25 | The time is fast approaching when a more accurate division of mankind will be between those who are patients , knowing despair as well as they know the lines grooved into their own hands , and those who are psychiatrists , so helplessly and irrecoverably sick that they believe that , serenity can be achieved by swallowing a few polychromatic biochemicals ! |
| 26 | There 's a lot of competition to get your space , specially with the Latins ; they 're not used to a woman doing the same job as well as they do . ’ |
| 27 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 28 | For the first time , things are n't working quite as well as they used to . |
| 29 | I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject . |
| 30 | The RCM understood this as well as they understood the realities of keeping up the supply of foster parents . |