Example sentences of "jolly well " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should jolly well hope you do see it , ’ Lady Woodleigh snapped . |
| 2 | If all the subsequent television and newspaper interviews are to be believed , the boy Lawson told Mrs Thatcher that he jolly well was n't going to stay on as Chancellor unless she fired that rotter Walters as her ‘ adviser ’ . |
| 3 | But the horse is used to being brushed , or he jolly well should be ! |
| 4 | I should jolly well hope so . |
| 5 | I 've worked for it , I deserve it and I 'm jolly well going to do it . ’ |
| 6 | I was jolly well tempted to tell him it 's those wretched Frenchmen . |
| 7 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 8 | He thought he could jolly well do it better than Hoomey and co : he could swim and run , at least , which was halfway there , and he bet he could learn riding quicker than them . |
| 9 | Oh , I know we 've no certificates , but we 're both quite good — you really dance jolly well , and it is n't likely that there 's anyone else at the game . |
| 10 | ‘ She says she 'll work , and we 'll jolly well keep her up to it ! |
| 11 | Jitters had his gun back , with just one bloody buggering round left in it , so he would jolly well have to put it to freaking good use , would n't he , by jove . |
| 12 | He had a mountain to climb and he was jolly well going to reach the top or die in the attempt . |
| 13 | He said he wanted to toast a bridesmaid but there were n't any around so he was jolly well going to toast Gill instead . |
| 14 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 15 | ‘ They look as though they 'd fit in jolly well at ‘ La Felicità ’ . ’ |
| 16 | Anyway , if you were n't so futile , you 'd know jolly well I 've no need to make Pogo jealous . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Do you get attendance allowance ? ’ and I said ‘ No , I do n't get anything ’ , and she said ‘ Well jolly well apply for it ! ’ |
| 18 | M. You can jolly well read The Catcher In The Rye . |
| 19 | ‘ Jolly well ridden , Dolly , ’ said Georgina Landsdown to Laura Medaware , her cousin by marriage . |
| 20 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 21 | ‘ I should jolly well think so , ’ Matt put in , eyeing her sternly . |
| 22 | Those journalists may know something about environmental issues , but if they understand transport issues , they were jolly well doing their best to conceal the fact . |
| 23 | Let's say first of all that Ted has done jolly well in getting them out , and everyone deserves er , er you know , he deserves a tremendous vote of thanks from everyone . |
| 24 | But I think that from , er , Sir Edward 's point of view , he has done jolly well , and er , the families have already expressed their great gratitude to him . |
| 25 | Then he could jolly well get on with things — and came out into the passage . |
| 26 | Jolly well ought to as well . |
| 27 | Therefore , weatherwise , it gets what it jolly well deserves . |
| 28 | It 's the planning aspect that 's difficult , people er , jolly well well people do sell their bodies in the street , people do sing in the street , people make music in the street . |
| 29 | ‘ I should jolly well think so ! ’ |
| 30 | He claimed he had n't any but he jolly well had ! |