Example sentences of "one well " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sussex gardens offer a glimpse of sheep , while Norfolk gardens go one better with hydraulic rams ! |
| 2 | Last year they went one better , overcoming Waterlooville before losing 1-0 at home to Sutton in the second round . |
| 3 | Last year they went one better , overcoming Waterlooville before losing 1-0 at home to Sutton in the second round . |
| 4 | Glasgow , already the host for many of the UK 's most innovative arts events , hopes to go one better in 1990 , combining commercial and publicly-funded activity in a year-long cultural feast . |
| 5 | Willis had one of his inspired days and , after taking four wickets in the first innings , went one better this time , with 5 for 65 . |
| 6 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 7 | Whitaker and Milton were runners-up to them in Tampa , Florida , in 1989 , and the Yorkshireman was determined to go one better this time . |
| 8 | In Aberdeen South the Tories went one better when Mr Raymond Robertson won the seat from Labour 's Frank Doran , regaining a seat the Conservatives lost in 1987 . |
| 9 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 10 | Snooker : White determined to go one better |
| 11 | Leslie , however , could go one better : ‘ It must be nice , ’ he replied , in a piece of monumental understatement , contained in a letter written during a lull in the fighting at Wadi Akarit , ‘ to ramble round the Pilgrim Way . |
| 12 | Some of the lessons we learnt that will make the next one better , for you as well as us are ; |
| 13 | Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich . |
| 14 | When Danny returned from the States Sean was well into ultra stalled hand plants assisted by 2 or 3 platform spectators so in a doubles act with Mark Abrook , Danny had to go one better by actually making a hand plant on Mark 's back whilst Mark was doing a backside grind . |
| 15 | Like an aphid , then , the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards , but it goes one better . |
| 16 | I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time . |
| 17 | If Hughie Gallacher was the first Scot to be accused of being drunk in charge of a football then his namesake , Patsy Gallacher , had already gone one better . |
| 18 | This is doubtful for a start ; but the English Edison Bell Company went one better — literally . |
| 19 | There is no one better at persuading people to do things they might not otherwise have been inclined to do . |
| 20 | There is no one better at perceiving likely growth points in geophysics , at getting the money to pursue them and at encouraging people to work on them . |
| 21 | What is more , each time the market leader unveiled a new processor , the Japanese competition went one better with its own machines . |
| 22 | The Saturday 1st XI is to be captained by Richard Lewis , and will be hoping to go one better this year , after finishing runners-up in Hampshire County Div . |
| 23 | In the razzmatazz of Los Angeles Carl Lewis went one better , emulating the feat of the legendary black athlete Jesse Owens in the ‘ Nazi ’ Olympics of 1936 . |
| 24 | Kenco smooth , rich-tasting coffee and superb aroma has always been a great favourite , but now Kenco Single Grind has gone one better — it can be used in any coffee-making system you choose . |
| 25 | Sir Bysshe Shelley went one better in the 1790s when he commissioned a new house at Castle Goring . |
| 26 | STEVE DAVIS , a 9–1 third-round winner over Wayne Jones , went one better in thrashing Irishman Eugene Hughes 9–0 to reach the last 16 of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Snooker Championship at Preston last night . |
| 27 | If you are a ‘ two in one ’ shampoo fan then look out for new Wella Balsam Wash & Care Plus — they 've gone one better with the creation of their new ‘ three in one ’ product ! |
| 28 | And George Duffield knows she has the star quality to come back and go one better next year . |
| 29 | Now the young Scot with the auld reekies plans to go one better — by flooring the opposition in the world finals in America . |
| 30 | One of the members went one better by telling us she had made a shadow pleated skirt which , by mistake , was put into the ‘ whites ’ wash and finished up a quarter of its original size , ruined beyond restoration — so everyone though . |