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

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1 We do n't really know them well enough do we ?
2 How can she possibly know somebody well enough to get married , the little ninny !
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I do n't I do n't really know it well enough to tell you what a nitrogen cycle .
10 Do we really know anyone well enough to make up their mind for them ?
11 Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book .
12 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 .
13 So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris .
14 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 … ’
15 ‘ 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 .
16 You do ri well we know you well enough to know your voice though .
17 Those who know her well also know that this is inaccurate .
18 ‘ Brian said he felt Jason could do us a job , and I know him well enough to realise that his judgement is worth following .
19 ‘ 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 . ’
20 ‘ You 're sure you know him well enough to make that claim with authority ? ’
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polished public persona ?
25 I knew him well enough to spot that .
26 Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out .
27 Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward .
28 But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing .
29 and then they did n't build it well enough to withstand fire
30 ‘ They ca n't fake it well enough to fool a forensic laboratory .
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