Example sentences of "[pron] well [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may keep certain parts of ourselves well hidden from view , but our behaviour can speak volumes about attitudes , preferences and prejudices , some of which can be important when it comes to dealing with disputes and differences of opinion or possible action . |
| 2 | Keep that head of yours well hidden , or I shall not be answerable for the consequences ! ’ |
| 3 | Okay right John hello John Er he connected well he has n't connected on my well get him get him back get him back we 'll connect hang up John put your phone down What ? |
| 4 | I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste . |
| 5 | Now which one do I well shove roughly |
| 6 | Nor was I well placed , not here in France . |
| 7 | My decision not to eat had been made on the spur of the moment and was based not , as I well knew , on the terrible beating , but on the pointless cruelty of not allowing the others to go to the bathroom . |
| 8 | No I quite agree , I also agree with the lady who said that one of the important things is that you like the person , I well speaking from experience , I started out liking somebody |
| 9 | Today Bury , as I well know , is a very different place . |
| 10 | the there 's no morality with this government I 'm afraid Terry , as you and I well know ! |
| 11 | As I well know , the servant question is a constant subject for conversation in every drawing-room , so why do I resent it so much now ? |
| 12 | ‘ My lord , ’ said Gilleis in a low voice , ‘ I well know you do . ’ |
| 13 | Cor dear oh dear he said , I know I well know why he 's down here doing that . |
| 14 | I well remember the words of an old foreman who said to me , Son , even if you have the talent and ability to take you to the top , there is still no guarantee that you will ever get there , or even half way . |
| 15 | I well remember attending an ecumenical garden party , minding my own business and trying to juggle a cup of weak tea and a sinewy rock cake . |
| 16 | Indeed , I well remember my one , involuntary , appearance on the front page of one of Fleet Street 's best-selling tabloids , alongside eight other guilty-looking British journalists , the morning after we had all failed to warn our readers that Cassius Clay was a whole lot better than Sonny Liston . |
| 17 | I well remember describing the circumstances of Handel 's ‘ Water Music ’ suite one evening as a thundering rainstorm began outside . |
| 18 | I well remember Miss Laverock 's staging of the last appearance of Amelita Galli-Curci , the world famous coloratura soprano , and of how thrilled we all were by that amazing and beautiful voice . |
| 19 | I well remember watching from the projection room the first showing in Vancouver of ‘ Knickerbocker Holiday ’ , with Charles Coburn singing that fine old ballad ‘ September Song ’ . |
| 20 | I well remember buying in 1926 , for two shillings , a large pile of encyclopaedias , which had been issued in weekly parts in 1910 . |
| 21 | They also had an overhead railway which gave me unlimited pleasure and I well remember a wall covered with hundreds of tiny wooden drawers filled with different sizes of screws and nails . |
| 22 | The room had one other chair , a red velvet-covered rocker , having massive springs and I well remember how , when sitting on this on one occasion , absent-mindedly put my hand on the bottom leg . |
| 23 | I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall . |
| 24 | I well remember the day when I first stared hard , malevolent racism in the face . |
| 25 | I well remember a sudden fear in my heart , for Jerry . |
| 26 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
| 27 | I well remember Hunt standing by the side of the track and waving his fist at the feisty little Frenchman when he next came by . |
| 28 | I well remember Alan Jones referring contemptuously to the elements and the obstacle they represented . |
| 29 | From the age of seven I had always wanted to be a missionary and I well remember my mother returning from a missionary meeting in the village to hear me say that was what I hoped one day to be . |
| 30 | I well remember my first Christmas in Burma . |