Example sentences of "well [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 2 | ‘ I remembered pretty well where it started . |
| 3 | Well where it 's been hacked about |
| 4 | Similarly , the West Midlands , except Coventry , still seems to be an area where Labour is doing less well than it should all other things being equal . |
| 5 | It suited him less well than it had Zacharias . |
| 6 | ‘ Well so it is , Da , ’ Patsy ventured . |
| 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 | He had accepted the invitation gladly , knowing full well that it would be his last opportunity to speak in public as a European executive of United Motors . |
| 9 | ‘ You know very well that it was extremely dangerous , ’ Doyle said coldly . |
| 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 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 12 | Christine , however , knew very well that it was n't the distance that kept Miss Miggs from travelling to Gridford , but the railway fare . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all . |
| 15 | The dish should fit the meat so well that it does n't take too much liquid to just cover the meat . |
| 16 | the magazine had the final say on the format of the finished pattern , so I found myself having to pass over things like ‘ Take off on a hand knitting needle ’ when I knew full well that it would be much easier to ‘ take off on waster yarn ’ . |
| 17 | Galileo knew only too well that it could , if the province of biblical authority were not scrupulously defined . |
| 18 | Harry exclaimed , flushing deeply , because he knew very well that it was n't . |
| 19 | Well that it will not be effective until er you produce that licence to this court . |
| 20 | You might suppose that a bad smell would not deter a really hungry hunter , but anyone who has received a full squirt from a skunk knows very well that it is almost unendurable . |
| 21 | But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub . |
| 22 | She performed her task so well that it was twenty minutes before she brought him to a thundering climax . |
| 23 | When you know perfectly well that it — ’ |
| 24 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 25 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 26 | But at the moments you wish you were shot of the whole thing you know perfectly well that it 's precisely because you could n't endure to be without it , now you know about it , that you 've got to go through all this . |
| 27 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 28 | ‘ You know perfectly well that it is not me whom you love , but Mrs Greville , and the two children who are your responsibility , and , knowing that your heart lies with them , and not with me , I can not marry you . ’ |
| 29 | She knew perfectly well that it was not , but to her surprise nerves were getting the better of her . |
| 30 | ‘ You know perfectly well that it is not really her home — ’ |