Example sentences of "well [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably most parents subscribe to this view , and while they may not deliberately choose particular methods of child care to bring about a specified long-term outcome , their belief in the association may well make them feel an added responsibility . |
| 2 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
| 3 | He was advised by Charity to brace up because the effect on the Colonel of tonight 's little scene might well make him change his mind . |
| 4 | Anything but a lucky accident might well make him look an idiot . |
| 5 | It was her own cottage and it was all she had to show for 20 years of marriage so , she reasoned , she might as well make it look as good as possible . |
| 6 | I look at the scrap heap , scrap for that then , might as well make it look as good as possible , even if I get two five for it , I 'm sticking two , two grand in there , well we 'll make it , we 'll stick the lot in the joint account and keep it there |
| 7 | Well d' ya remember the first party we had ? |
| 8 | Well D' ya know you get daft ! |
| 9 | Well d' ya know what I have n't to your place yet , the , fireplace . |
| 10 | I , I , well let me start first of all like most companies this has been erm er concentrated wonderfully in er reconsidering the plans and this means that quite seriously that erm er the cost can not be precisely in the accounts because there 's a redesign . |
| 11 | Well let me inform them it has nothing to do with performances . |
| 12 | Well let me explain briefly th th the overall structure of the theory . |
| 13 | Well let me explain the erm oh that 's , that 's a description on the back . |
| 14 | Well let me explain . |
| 15 | Well let me go to your ex-wife , Alison there was an amicable court settlement ? |
| 16 | Well let me go over and have a look at it and see what they 've got . |
| 17 | Yeah well let me change that bit over . |
| 18 | Well let me quote to you what your own document says , on |
| 19 | Well let me tell you that you 're the one that 's slipped up , not me . |
| 20 | Well let me tell you … ’ |
| 21 | Well let me tell you er er this this 'll this 'll make you hungry and you 'll earn a darn sight more money without a basic . |
| 22 | Well let me give you two tubes just in case you need to keep going for er longer than we might think . |
| 23 | Yeah well let me check that out . |
| 24 | Well let me speak to my brother first but erm give Geoff a call , I know that he 's looking for something . |
| 25 | Well let me wait , I 'll tell , I 'll sh I 'll tell you what the insurers say when they come back , when it comes . |
| 26 | Okay well let me say something now about what political power means er to an American president and what its limits are . |
| 27 | Well let me say quite clearly now , that is not true . |
| 28 | Well let me put it to you like this , I feel sometimes that I need something , |
| 29 | Well let me put it this way er it 's the two's company three 's a crowd problem . |
| 30 | So the A fifty nine well let me put it let me put another question , does the A sixty one serve a similar function to the A fifty nine ? |