Example sentences of "perfectly well [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman has listened to the debate and knows perfectly well that a vast variety of views exist within the Northern Ireland parties . |
| 2 | Jake smiled as he said it , knowing perfectly well that no such thought had ever entered her head . |
| 3 | ‘ But you have gone beyond the bounds of prudence ; knowing perfectly well that the great majority of our readers are men … ’ |
| 4 | This , Miss Miggs explained , was because her hand had become too shaky to form the letters clearly , but Christine knew perfectly well that the old lady could n't write . |
| 5 | The adult you — the one watching the film — would know perfectly well that the fall had hurt and distressed you and would be able to say so . |
| 6 | He knew perfectly well that the software was going into the Ministry of Defence , he had not asked to what use it would be put when it was installed , and he certainly hoped there would be more of the same . |
| 7 | It is all too easy to blame the unions , to argue that they must know perfectly well that the effect of excessive wage settlements is inflationary but that they nevertheless still seek and get them . |
| 8 | The extreme snobbery of this abstruse observation would have been rude had it been clear , for Lydia knew perfectly well that the Molesworths were the sort of people who picnicked in lay-bys , bringing little chairs and tables and using the car boot as a sort of sideboard . |
| 9 | Each of them knows perfectly well that the strength of her position in the home lies in the physical dependence of her husband and children upon her and she is suspicious of anything that would tend to undermine this . |
| 10 | ‘ You know perfectly well that the girl has been anything but a comfort to me . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You know perfectly well that the earth needs rain — and then the sun comes again . ’ |
| 12 | If so , she 'd ignore the remark , and instead of delving further into the subject she said , ‘ You know perfectly well that the meal was a joint effort , because you cooked the bacon . ’ |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that the commitment on income tax is a longer-term one and that we hope to achieve it as and when conditions permit and when it is prudent to do so . |
| 14 | We know perfectly well that the Labour party has committed itself to an additional £35,000 million of public spending and no capping on local authority expenditure . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |
| 16 | Above all , the tsar knew perfectly well that the gentry were unlikely to help him . |
| 17 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 18 | Because of course he knew perfectly well that the promptings of his own nature were an offence to his mother 's moral code . |
| 19 | And they knew perfectly well when the connections had been made . |