Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be well and " in BNC.

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1 This is an area in which young people 's enthusiasm has been well and truly aroused at school .
2 It went clean through the Redruth posts and the Soviet Union 's first tour of England had been well and truly launched .
3 The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time .
4 I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried .
5 The very private little operation had been well and truly let out of the bag .
6 No one speaks till the news is over and Ken 's cobwebs have been well and truly blown away .
7 Christ 's message of peace and goodwill to all men has been well and truly eclipsed by today 's stars .
8 A short wooden sword was clutched in one grimy hand and the boy 's shirt had been well and truly ripped .
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