Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] well [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Policy strategy , which had been well developed in the Inner Area Studies , Community Development Projects and the 1977 white paper , broader issues of substance had dominated the debate . |
| 2 | She leaned forward and examined the leather which had been well cut , fitting the boot with just a little to spare . |
| 3 | King Edward VIII was clearly moving outside the waters which had been well charted by King Edward VII . |
| 4 | Citrine 's interventions largely succeeded because they were in general well-timed ; on issues on which he was utterly sure of the rightness of his cause ; and on ground which had been well prepared in advance by correspondence between officials at the BEA and the Ministry , so that the Minister 's brief could be effectively exploited in the discussion . |
| 5 | He had even experienced it himself once or twice , particularly while doing the outline plans for a church he had designed as part of a new mixed-density , mixed-income neighbourhood scheme , which had been well reviewed in the journals . |
| 6 | Although British industry more than matched American in its degree of concentration it was far slower to adopt modern methods of business organisation , especially the multi-divisional company form which had been well established in the USA before the Second World War . |
| 7 | She had been well taught , and after making the odd minor mistake during the opening moves she soon recovered herself , and began to play with a concentration and a ferocity which was also a surprise . |
| 8 | So far she had felt very little because she had been well prepared , but she did not have the necessary audacity to simply whisk the cloth away . |
| 9 | A few minutes before 5pm on Sunday , December 1st , all France it seemed was either holding its breath or , like team captain , Yannick Noah , was in prayer , as Forget , who had been well beaten in the opening rubber of the match by Andre Agassi , prepared to serve what was to be the final game of the 1991 competition . |
| 10 | Both students , they had been well equipped and managed to make their own way off the mountain . |
| 11 | The first seems less likely since the pilots were experienced and known to be very competent and they had been well briefed ( by professional weather service ) on the ACA arrival and approach procedures . |
| 12 | He said he was called Prentice and he was a detective-sergeant and he 'd been well trained in the most vicious of police techniques : politeness and reasonableness . |
| 13 | She was overcome with emotion when she discovered it had been well cared for . |
| 14 | Although the cut across my stomach might not have had quite the artistry of Michelangelo , it had been well sewn and healed well . |
| 15 | The person who hears his words and obeys them ‘ is like a man building a house , who dug deep , and laid the foundation upon rock ; and when a flood arose , the stream broke against that house , and could not shake it , because it had been well built ’ ( Luke 6:48 RSV ) . |
| 16 | In a clipped French sentence that sounded as if it had been well rehearsed , she told Agathe that she may have lost the produce of her labour but she had not lost the fruit of her labours . |
| 17 | He had a large head with his hair cut right into the wood , piggy eyes and a broad flat nose that looked like it had been well punched in its day . |
| 18 | Luckily , he had been well trained , and did not try to bite me , so I was not hurt . |
| 19 | When St Paul told the Christians in Philippi that he had learnt to be content , he did n't mean that he was smug ; it did n't mean that he had been well fed and could put his feet up . |
| 20 | He added that he had been well treated when he returned for the US Open . |
| 21 | He displayed gratification through all the entertainments that took place during and after the feast , and took the floor with the rest during the slow , formal dancing , in which he had been well taught by the various females attracted to his brake and his burrow . |
| 22 | Cricket was greatly loved — and he became captain of cricket ; Ifor taught him tennis ; at table tennis he had been well coached — locally , of course — and could be fanatical . |
| 23 | He had been well educated , and came from a home where much love was shown , but alone in the darkness he imagined a thousand evil eyes upon him , and his one instinct was to blast away with his gun with murder in his heart . |
| 24 | What followed is well chronicled elsewhere . |