Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] well [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Nothing will make me well again . ’
2 I 'd have assumed you 'd know them well enough without wishing to hear them repeated . ’
3 We do n't really know them well enough do we ?
4 One minute she was enjoying it — oh , with a few protests thrown in , like she did n't know me well enough , she should n't be doing it , and so on — nothing serious .
5 How can she possibly know somebody well enough to get married , the little ninny !
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 I did n't know him well enough , I mumbled .
9 She did n't know him well enough .
10 No I did n't like to but I just , do n't , do n't know him well enough .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 I do n't I do n't really know it well enough to tell you what a nitrogen cycle .
14 Do we really know anyone well enough to make up their mind for them ?
15 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 .
16 I do n't know anything about ward work , I do n't know anything about the forms , I do n't know anything Well obviously you get R T
17 So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris .
18 ‘ I could be involved in a number of different ways , ’ she continues , ‘ but I can still do it well enough , and you never know what 's around the next corner .
19 Did Julian do it well yesterday ?
20 Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement .
21 ‘ It will make you well again , ’ I said hopefully .
22 And you probably do like them well enough , thought Jaq .
23 ‘ Then you do like me well enough ? ’
24 ‘ I could n't see him well enough . ’
25 They did n't understand her well enough .
26 As for going to church , why , I ca n't afford it , — besides to tell the truth , I do n't like it well enough .
27 Thorpe and captain Bargh are locked in battle at the top of the Second Division averages which has seen their scores take them well ahead of all the other riders in the Homefire League .
28 Ross changes sides because Macbeth does n't reward him well enough .
29 And of course , he 's searching for these chemicals because he believes they will make him well again .
30 Just thinking of the dark young man with Romany looks who had taken her virginity , and for a short time had loved her so passionately , did not serve her well enough .
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