Example sentences of "done [adv] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrestled to control himself , but the faint hope of convincing Mr Graham propelled the words irrepressibly from his lips : ‘ Actually , ’ he said as his boss opened the door , ‘ our banks have done rather well out of the debt crisis … ’ |
| 2 | Certainly , it is no secret that , in proportional terms , Scotland has done rather well out of the arrangements . |
| 3 | Indeed , in recent years has done rather well out of its visits to Brussels by both politicians and officers . |
| 4 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 5 | Among churchmen , even those few bishops who had given enthusiastic support to the coup of 1327 had done so largely out of exasperation with the Despensers ' greed on the Marches or with royal failure to defend the north against Scotland : such personal links as they may have had with Isabella and Mortimer were strained both by a peace which left the north exposed and by Mortimer 's ruthless venality . |
| 6 | These longer-term implications are unlikely to impinge on the development industry , which has done extremely well out of UDC designations . |
| 7 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 8 | Perhaps the Duke ( his temper not improved by his wife having just been refused the style of HRH ) thought that Baldwin had already done well enough out of the events six months before , without an entitlement to further expressions of fulsome goodwill . |
| 9 | Morgan must have done quite well out of his business , being able to afford the rent on the entire house . |
| 10 | ‘ Though after last night … ’ his glance raked her face ‘ … maybe you 'd have done quite well out of the deal if you 'd bothered to follow through . ’ |
| 11 | Something to do with som something to do with a cotton mill in Paisley and it was s s s W I c just can nae recall what it was but it was a great big trial , there was a And er this this lawyer he had done quite well out of this case but it was a quite That must have been in er about nineteen twenty nineteen thirties about nineteen thirty two . |
| 12 | To be fair , there is no doubt that with luck , commonsense and sensible advice many people have done very well out of privatisation shares . |
| 13 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 14 | They 've done very well out of that parcel of land that was given . |