Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] well [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | They recognised you , and described me well enough for him to start making enquiries . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But you expected something better nowadays , especially for a woman in her forties ! |
4 | Warner heard him well enough . |
5 | In her opening round of 67 on Thursday , the American made fours at each of the five long holes , and it was the same par fives which served her well yesterday . |
6 | Smart had always attracted friends , and they served him well now , securing him the necessary recommendation to St Luke 's by a bookseller , perhaps a connection of Newbery 's , who had become a banker , probably one of the bankers who formed a majority of the Governors of St Luke 's . |
7 | Their first set was all up-tempo , driving stuff , from Sonny Rollins 's Tenor Madness to Harold Arlen 's My Shining Hour , and they acquitted themselves well enough alongside the visitor , although the rhythm section were a little at-odds with each other stylistically . |
8 | ‘ I thought you knew me well enough by now to know I 'm careful — very careful — about what I say , ’ Kuhlmann growled . |
9 | She knew me well enough not to ask what I was up to in front of a policeman . |
10 | Though a gust of icy wind made his eyes water , blurring the caller 's features , he knew them well enough . |
11 | Roddy Grant went one better midway through the first half , deflecting David Byrne 's low driven cross past Maxwell with the toe of his outstretched boot . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Over Madame Mattli 's shoulder Paula could see Arlene watching her , a tiny smile lifting one corner of her scarlet mouth , and Paula knew her well enough by now to know exactly what she was thinking . |
15 | Oliver said : ‘ You knew her well enough to be on that boat with her . ’ |
16 | Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polished public persona ? |
17 | And it was the woman had cast him off ; she knew him well enough already to realise how much that had hurt his pride . |
18 | She knew him well enough now to see through some of the camouflage — perhaps all of it . |
19 | I knew him well enough by now to know that he would never presume to tell me what to do . |
20 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
21 | Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out . |
22 | ‘ I knew him well enough , ’ said Desmond , on the defensive . |
23 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
24 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
25 | Well I called a meeting but I did n't think I advertised it well enough because there was a lot of interest and then I think we held it at the wrong time as well did n't we , |
26 | In this writer 's view , Franco 's response showed that he understood it well enough , but behaved as though he did not in order to avoid direct confrontation with the Germans and , at the same time , to slow the war down . |
27 | The biggest threat , he predicted , was the presence of that ‘ gloomy shadow master : master Albrecht Dürer knew it well enough when he placed Death behind the young couple in that beautiful etching . ’ |
28 | Robinson and Porter knew it well enough . |
29 | They liked him well enough , however , when they knew him better . |
30 | The polls put him well ahead of George Bush , with the Independent Ross Perot in third place . |