Example sentences of "[pers pn] know quite well " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know quite well what the old goat thought I was , ’ Kate interrupted , ‘ and if anything that bears out my case ! ’ |
| 2 | I mean ah I know I know but then he 's pretty tied up and I know very well but even trying to get lunch with is difficult but there may be there may be I mean I know quite well but would want . |
| 3 | It was a man I knew quite well . |
| 4 | ‘ You know quite well you ca n't take it back . |
| 5 | You know quite well that 's why I came back to see you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You know quite well you are not a servant , ’ Anne told her . |
| 7 | She replied without any emotion : ‘ No , Mum , you know quite well I do n't joke about personal things . |
| 8 | " Well , that 's very hypocritical of you , " said Clelia , " because you know quite well that she only wants to have James so as not to hurt your feelings . |
| 9 | You know quite well how to sit examinations without any guidance , and you have no intention of following anyone 's advice . |
| 10 | You know quite well that is n't what I mean . |
| 11 | ‘ I think you know quite well . |
| 12 | ‘ You know quite well who painted it . ’ |
| 13 | She spilt liquid things and broke hard ones ; she slipped on banana-skins in the street , and even in places she knew quite well she frequently lost her way . |
| 14 | She knew quite well what the future held for her — marriage to Steven and a busy life as the wife of a doctor . |
| 15 | ‘ She knew quite well it was his birthday . |
| 16 | " She knew quite well it was n't worth what she paid for it . " |
| 17 | She knew quite well . |
| 18 | She knew quite well that her address-book was here , in her shoulder-bag . |
| 19 | Their eyes had met — and she knew quite well what the other girl had read there . |
| 20 | There was nothing unpleasant about it , as she knew quite well , but it brought Maggie out of the renewed clouds of desire . |
| 21 | She knew quite well why she would be trotting over to the new extension when summoned . |
| 22 | So what if he did want something from her , something she knew quite well she had n't got ? |
| 23 | We know quite well that there 'll be no markets for them in future . |
| 24 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 25 | As he wrote the words , he knew quite well that his grave had been dug for him the day before , once a reprieve had been refused . |
| 26 | Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident . |
| 27 | with people he knows quite well . |