Example sentences of "[pron] well [adv] [verb] " 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 | I mean you 've changed it , you know well you dumped him for Danny and everything well just do n't worry about it yeah do n't worry about it yeah look do you want me to ring him up and say anything ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We do n't really know them well enough do we ? |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out . |
| 13 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 14 | ‘ Brian said he felt Jason could do us a job , and I know him well enough to realise that his judgement is worth following . |
| 15 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 're sure you know him well enough to make that claim with authority ? ’ |
| 20 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 21 | Those who know her well also know that this is inaccurate . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polished public persona ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Do we really know anyone well enough to make up their mind for them ? |
| 27 | ‘ They ca n't fake it well enough to fool a forensic laboratory . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 30 | Nor was it well enough coordinated to give the Ministry of Internal Affairs a clear run . |