Example sentences of "known well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 2 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 3 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 4 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 5 | But I should have known better than to accept anyone recommended by you . " |
| 6 | I shoulda known better than to send two dumb clucks like that . ’ |
| 7 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 8 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 9 | When the initial grief of the desertion had passed she had known better than to mention her father 's name . |
| 10 | She had thought longingly of the candle left behind in Guy 's chamber , but had known better than to mention it . |
| 11 | He should have known better than agree to support a magistrate whose hatred of gipsies was so well known . |
| 12 | This covert attitude of declaring oneself unable to conceive as possible an exercising of audacity which in fact really took place gives the impression that the speaker thinks that the persons who did the action should have known better than to try . |
| 13 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 14 | ( implies " he should have known better than to … " ) |
| 15 | ( Sun , 24 September 1975 : 26 – 1 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 99 ) ( implies that they should have known better than to cross gloves with Joe Louis ) |
| 16 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 17 | ‘ I should have known better than to think you 'd back down . ’ |
| 18 | The IRA has always known better than to attack the security forces of the Republic , since it would instantly lose whatever support it has and could provoke the Irish government to order internment , as it did in the distant past . |
| 19 | I should have known better but I got a booking about half past nine in the evening . |
| 20 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 21 | READERS with longer memories will recall that Crystal Palace were dubbed The Team Of The Eighties by some people who should have known better and promptly began the decade with a 0-0 draw against Norwich . |