Example sentences of "know [pron] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can she possibly know somebody well enough to get married , the little ninny ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I do n't I do n't really know it well enough to tell you what a nitrogen cycle . |
| 7 | Do we really know anyone well enough to make up their mind for them ? |
| 8 | 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 . |