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 | Warner heard him well enough . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you knew me well enough by now to know I 'm careful — very careful — about what I say , ’ Kuhlmann growled . |
| 8 | She knew me well enough not to ask what I was up to in front of a policeman . |
| 9 | Though a gust of icy wind made his eyes water , blurring the caller 's features , he knew them well enough . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Oliver said : ‘ You knew her well enough to be on that boat with her . ’ |
| 14 | Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polished public persona ? |
| 15 | And it was the woman had cast him off ; she knew him well enough already to realise how much that had hurt his pride . |
| 16 | She knew him well enough now to see through some of the camouflage — perhaps all of it . |
| 17 | I knew him well enough by now to know that he would never presume to tell me what to do . |
| 18 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 19 | Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew him well enough , ’ said Desmond , on the defensive . |
| 21 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
| 22 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 23 | 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 , |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Robinson and Porter knew it well enough . |
| 27 | They liked him well enough , however , when they knew him better . |
| 28 | The polls put him well ahead of George Bush , with the Independent Ross Perot in third place . |
| 29 | She knew the girl who accompanied him well enough , but her companion 's face escaped her . |
| 30 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |