Example sentences of "[pron] well [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can she possibly know somebody well enough to get married , the little ninny ! |
| 2 | Maybe it is feasible for you to find someone who knows you well enough to comment ( friend , family or colleague ) and to give you some personal insights . |
| 3 | You do ri well we know you well enough to know your voice though . |
| 4 | This emotion which , even as I planned to drive to Prague , while admitting only to liking you well enough to want to ease any problems that might arise , made me instruct Lubor … ’ |
| 5 | Other women might be able to cope with an affair that was based on passion and nothing else , but she knew herself well enough to realise she could only be permanently scarred by such an involvement . |
| 6 | She knew herself well enough to know that if he challenged her account in the latter mode she 'd almost certainly lose her temper with him , and then the atmosphere between them , which had been ( with the exception of his overtures ) so easy and undemanding , would be spoiled . |
| 7 | ‘ The Vetch ’ is a really good restaurant ; so good , I ca n't afford to eat there , but I have played there on occasions and most of the staff know me well enough to stop for a drink and a chat . |
| 8 | He did n't actually talk about it to me — I suppose he knows me well enough to guess that I 'd have dug in my heels . |
| 9 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 10 | Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out . |
| 11 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 12 | ‘ Brian said he felt Jason could do us a job , and I know him well enough to realise that his judgement is worth following . |
| 13 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
| 14 | She was now only a step away from her target , so she was n't far from getting to know him well enough to question him about his allegiance — just as long as she could keep his escort sweet , which would probably mean more bondage if that was the only way he could get his nuts off . |
| 15 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 16 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 're sure you know him well enough to make that claim with authority ? ’ |
| 18 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 19 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 20 | Rosalba baked special almond biscuits , hoops of crumbly nuts and fine sugar , intending to wrap some in coloured papers and offer them to Tommaso 's mother as a gift for the feast ; but could not , because , as she was about to set off , she realised that she did not know her well enough to call and give her a present . |
| 21 | Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polished public persona ? |
| 22 | After Leonora 's stitches were removed , painlessly , to her relief , Penry pronounced her well enough to help with his articles , since typing proved to be another of her accomplishments . |
| 23 | Do we really know anyone well enough to make up their mind for them ? |
| 24 | ‘ They ca n't fake it well enough to fool a forensic laboratory . |
| 25 | To understand the world , then , and understand it well enough to contrive to live in it , there is no one way : not fact , not theory , not particularity , not abstraction ; and explanations of whatever kind are not universal answers , merely part of a progressive and accumulative act of learning and knowing . |
| 26 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 27 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 28 | I do n't I do n't really know it well enough to tell you what a nitrogen cycle . |
| 29 | and then they did n't build it well enough to withstand fire |
| 30 | We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists . |