Example sentences of "know well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And who could know better than you ? |
| 2 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |
| 3 | ‘ None can know better than your lordship the importance of Berwick Castle , ’ Ramsay went on . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh Mister Doyle … you should know better than that . ’ |
| 5 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
| 6 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 7 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 8 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 9 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 10 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 12 | Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply . |
| 13 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 14 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 15 | Does he know better than doctors , nurses and the other health service staff whose life work has been delivering the service ? |
| 16 | ‘ You should know better than that , ’ he said and slapped me . |
| 17 | ‘ Well that 's the case anyway : whether it would stand up in court you 're the lawyer you 'd know better than I but we 're not talking about courts and proof just leaks and public opinion . |
| 18 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 19 | Filippo would know better than me if either of them have been here . ’ |
| 20 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 21 | And I suppose it 's up to us like the erm the old stagers to we should know better and I think Tom the Union chap , he 's he can see that and he wants to avoid it cos he 's got to speak to the lot of them ? |
| 22 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 23 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 24 | But as usual Nan seemed to know better than everyone what to do . |
| 25 | One of his shakier concerns was an air-taxi service with which he scared the wits out of travellers too innocent to know better than to fly with him . |
| 26 | Admiral Hawkins , as the General has just said , is in a position of having to cope with almost impossible circumstances which , as you are in a position to know better than most , involves making almost impossible decisions . |
| 27 | The way in which he asked suggested that he did in fact think that Fiver was likely to know better than himself , and it was clear from Fiver 's reply that this was accepted between them . |
| 28 | I do n't know well if it , there 's gas fire that , well all it means is they 've had it in but the gas is n't connected to the you probably have n't got a boiler . |
| 29 | The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else . |
| 30 | They exist also , and know better than anyone how contemptible is Labour 's attitude to Northern Ireland . |