Example sentences of "[verb] very well [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh he 's er , he 's done very well and the girl she 's a dentist . |
| 2 | I believe that the millions of women and men who choose to work part time will understand very well that the Labour party seeks to destroy their jobs whereas the Government are in the business of protecting them . |
| 3 | ‘ You know very well that a lady can not accept pecuniary assistance from a gentleman without being thought to have taken up a carte blanche . ’ |
| 4 | Overall the unit worked very well but the initial feeling that it looked really smart slowly evaporated once it had sat on the desk for an hour or two . |
| 5 | They knew very well that the manager kept several pounds of their winnings , but could n't object , as every other betting shop had barred them . |
| 6 | Tilda knew very well that the river could be dangerous . |
| 7 | Well , the point is erm Phyllis and her group knew very well that the Government had decreed the housing revenue account should balance . |
| 8 | Outcomes III and IV are obviously mirror images : one player does very well and the other does very badly . |
| 9 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 10 | In answer to his question , the right hon. Gentleman knows very well that the commitment to income tax is one that would extend over the lifetime of the future Parliament and perhaps beyond that . |