Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system allows me to communicate much better than I could before . |
| 2 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 3 | But he added : ‘ I played really well and that drive ( with a three-wood ) was my only bad shot of the day . |
| 4 | ‘ After my disastrous penalty give-away , Peter and I played quite well and were invited back . ’ |
| 5 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 6 | ‘ I now feel I defend much better and instead of always looking to beat the full-back I am happy to get half a yard on him and cross the ball as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 7 | I know pretty well where we went . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know full well that , frankly speaking , prostitutes are bad , but I feel something human in them which prevents me from feeling the slightest scruple about associating with them … . |
| 9 | And then I know full well that I 'm well within the guidelines of not going over the thirteen amp that this is designed to operate at maximum efficiency and safety . |
| 10 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 11 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 12 | But , in essence , it is a journey on wheels into the realms of beauty and grandeur I know so well and love so much . |
| 13 | I know as well as you that I commissioned it . |
| 14 | I mean ah I know I know but then he 's pretty tied up and I know very well but even trying to get lunch with is difficult but there may be there may be I mean I know quite well but would want . |
| 15 | I know very well that in many cases this is in the mind of the palaeontologist rather than in the rocky facts themselves . |
| 16 | Er a pity too and er also the villages erm in the in the area erm which I know very well and my and the Letchworth er Letchworth itself . |
| 17 | ‘ Because I know perfectly well that there can be no sound evidence for such monstrous , silly accusations . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I know perfectly well that your welfare services would have put her into a home , if she was as poor as you claim — ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , no , not when I know perfectly well that you love every minute of your life ! ’ she challenged . |
| 20 | I know perfectly well that when he was chairman of the Greater London council he wanted an elected police authority , and I think that he wanted to be chairman of it |
| 21 | And I know perfectly well that there 's no way that er I could get my wife to move out of the town , she loves it . |
| 22 | And secondly , in terms of Liz Liz is someone I know extremely well and have worked with in various functions and committees over the past . |
| 23 | I mean ah I know I know but then he 's pretty tied up and I know very well but even trying to get lunch with is difficult but there may be there may be I mean I know quite well but would want . |
| 24 | But I remember quite well when the first incandescent gas mantles came in . |
| 25 | I brought in from my car the gastric lavage outfit I loved so well and which has so sadly disappeared from my life . |
| 26 | I understand perfectly well that your mother too was blonde and beautiful . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
| 28 | the magazine had the final say on the format of the finished pattern , so I found myself having to pass over things like ‘ Take off on a hand knitting needle ’ when I knew full well that it would be much easier to ‘ take off on waster yarn ’ . |
| 29 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
| 30 | I knew perfectly well that if ever that crowd got hold of them none of them would have been left to tell the tale and took immediate steps for them to escape by the windows at the rear of the premises . |