Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making tree ties properly is an art , and it needs practice to do it well . |
| 2 | The President wished me well on my expedition and then , quite unexpectedly , announced that the College had decided to make a contribution to its cost . |
| 3 | ‘ The fact that it [ JAH-BUL-ON ] stands at the pinnacle of Craft Freemasonry makes it well nigh impossible to change . |
| 4 | It is clear enough , though large and dim ; any higher magnification shows it well , though even with × 20 I am not at all sure that I can begin to resolve it into stars . |
| 5 | So I smiled nervously and slammed him in the mouth with the metal box , trying to kick him in the groin as he sagged , but his heavy overcoat protected him well . |
| 6 | Of course you have to love your work to do it well . ’ |
| 7 | We get to know their problems better ad understand them better . |
| 8 | He became a bishop because , and solely because , the diocese knew him well and wanted him back . |
| 9 | Coffin noticed that his clothes , like his mother 's , were expensive and beautiful ; the boy wore them well , as if looking good was second nature to him . |
| 10 | I think even Control Room where at one stage it was a , a male domain , it is not so now there 's , there 's , I would think now there 's a predominance of women there , erm purely I think again that Control Room work suits them better , they , they , they concentrate better , I think , they , they lend themselves better to that type of work and they 're more dextrous with their fingers on , on these buttons and , and typewriters and , and other things |
| 11 | The same inertia applied ashore ; even the short climb to the tiny village assumed Everestine proportions , although the tagliatelle with the local red wine made it well worthwhile . |
| 12 | The fish and fruit diet sustained them well , though a doctor diagnosed Mr Glennie , who lost 22lb , as being malnourished , and he showed reporters folds of skin hanging off his buttocks . |
| 13 | Jack and Miguel got their pars and it was Harley 's turn to go for a closing birdie to put him well up the leader board . |
| 14 | ‘ When Mutch went up for his header we said ‘ Oh no ’ — but the lad handled it well . ’ |
| 15 | Background graphics are highly polished and the sound compliments it well . |
| 16 | My mind 's eye saw it well tamed and abloom with all kinds of ground-cover plants . |
| 17 | Lieb puts it well when he observes that the facade inscription on St Michael Berg am Laim — ‘ This is the Lord 's doing ; it is marvellous to our eyes ’ — paid homage not only to the King of kings , but also to the all powerful Josef Clemens , prince-bishop of Cologne . |
| 18 | Kirsty knows her well and they 're very fond of each other . |
| 19 | The division of the YJ Lovell group says the move leaves it better placed to cash in on work it is currently bringing in from South Yorkshire . |
| 20 | That upbringing served him well for Robert Redford 's Thirties drama The River Runs Through It , adapted from a novel by Norman MacLean about family conflict and fly fishing . |
| 21 | It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways , and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work . |
| 22 | Yet in insisting , as many bankers do , that outsiders can not grasp their special business , bankers themselves are missing a chance to understand it better . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 24 | The satin finish suits it well . |
| 25 | A natural meddler with an iron will , the role of magistrate suited her well . |
| 26 | The landlord knows her well , but could n't remember seeing her that night . |
| 27 | Swan Hunter 's experience of shipbuilding for the navy makes it well placed to win a contract . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you drop ten pounds ? ’ said Kim holding the note up for the woman to see it better . |
| 29 | We correctly anticipated how much we would miss him , but the manner of his passing became him well . |
| 30 | Most people who made the pilgrimage found it well worth their while , not only for the quality of the music-making but also for a quality of staging and design that pointedly bypassed the often musically ruinous fads of post-war directors ' opera in order to re-establish contact with an older and still valid tradition that goes back , with a passing glance at the work of Wieland Wagner , through Gründgens and Reinhardt to Roller and Mahler and , in some respects , Wagner himself . |