Sentence examples for getting the well from inspiring English sources
WICKENDEN: Raffi, it's sort of amazing to think about the images from just a year ago — five million barrels of crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for three months — and to recall the extraordinary resources that were devoted to getting the well capped and the cleanup under control.
After months of flowing oil into the ocean environment, BP succeeded in getting the well shut in without actually measuring the total flow rate from the well.
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The idea of getting the well-off to contribute to the financing of public policies is right in line with Syriza's wider agenda.
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Even Mr. Mazzella's elderly father pointedly asked him one day when BP would finally get the well plugged.
A few men raise their arms in triumph: they've got the well under control.
But it's the new culture of display that ultimately gets the well-to-do goat.
