Example sentences of "so well [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl .
2 My parents often mentioned their remorse , I was speaking so well before we went to the Russian Orthodox Easter Service .
3 It is more remarkable that the religious houses survived so well than that they were faced with economic problems , and if they were sometimes regarded as grasping landlords , they had little option to be anything else .
4 I believe that this is because they do everything so well that they do not get excessive pitching movements in their training stall recoveries .
5 They knew him so well that everyone fell into a hush and appeared to move around him on tiptoes .
6 They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper .
7 There were marvellous areas of growth , like Caribbean cruising with the fantastic prices and quality incidental to the impact of all the extra tonnage , and the ferries were doing so well that it would be a good idea to discourage people from turning up in hordes at Dover unticketed .
8 ‘ Our preparations have gone so well that none of us can wait to get there and begin in earnest .
9 This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join .
10 To my mind , it begins so well that it could easily be mistaken for a translation of an eighth-century hermit 's verse , composed in a beehive hut by a contented holy man of Old Ireland .
11 ‘ It is amazing when it works — in the Scottish Open in February against Eva Webster it went so well that I near enough knocked both of us out . ’
12 If this happens , Tit for Tat individuals , cooperating with one another in cosy little local enclaves , may prosper so well that they grow from small local clusters into larger local clusters .
13 Maidstone was used to all this and he had got the procedures worked out so well that very little mess was involved .
14 Alvar Salvadores and his companions bestirred themselves so well that they drove the enemy to their tents , making great mortality among them , and then they turned back , whereat my Cid was well pleased ; but Alvar Salvadores went on , hacking and hewing all before him , for he thought the ladies were looking on , and he pressed forward so far , that being without succour he was taken .
15 If we should wish to tell you how every one behaved himself in this battle , it is a thing which could not be done , for all did so well that no man can relate their feats .
16 She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ .
17 Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all .
18 This should be your aim , to know your presentation so well that the mechanics of offering it are taken for granted .
19 In fact I 'm told we ran the three-day week so well that it did n't make enough impact on the country ; they did n't realize the crisis and thought they would n't support Ted Heath .
20 Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ?
21 And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again .
22 Fred Gillett of the American science team says that despite the sun 's heat falling on IRAS , the satellite 's insulation is working so well that there is ‘ less heat going into the system than is radiated by the tip of my little finger ’ .
23 Lowe was quick to learn the various practices of the law profession , and decided upon conveyancing — transferring property from one person to another by purchase , lease or deed — as that branch of the law where his deafness was less of a handicap , and did so well that in the Michaelmas Term of 1829 , he took the prescribed oaths publicly in the Temple Hall and emerged as a Barrister of the Middle Temple — a most unprecedented event which created a sensation in the profession .
24 Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered .
25 He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all .
26 The dish should fit the meat so well that it does n't take too much liquid to just cover the meat .
27 You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out .
28 Ironically , he was shot for doing his job well , so well that his acute observation almost certainly saved lives .
29 The plan worked so well that insurers Lloyd 's paid out the £1.8 million claim .
30 Such craft have been in use since humanity 's very earliest days ; they are an example of an invention which serves its purpose so well that there is little need to improve upon it .
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