Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] [was/were] [verb] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its profitable career showed that it was doing better than the trading companies launched in Charles 's reign . |
| 2 | Giving banks and building societies the right to handle conveyancing might not make the service cheaper , but the competition should mean that it was done better . |
| 3 | ‘ I was shocked when Bristol City released me because I thought that I was doing well , ’ said Vernon , who has now scored four times in three games for Bath but has not yet started a game . |
| 4 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 5 | He would ask young Alex for the ring , and see that it was put well on Mary 's finger , he would wish them to be happy and fruitful and true to one another and that nothing would ever part them . |