Example sentences of "know [adv] well as " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's a little bit unfair I think as well to generalize , on sponsored members of parliament because , you know as well as I do , on some of the issues that have been very very important to us , not the sort erm , er the sexy issues that head , hit the headlines , but issues that mean a lot to our members , our sponsored members generally do work very , very hard . |
| 32 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I continue ( while we have it , let's press the advantage home ) , ‘ you know as well as I do that these couplings between the separate spheres always come to grief in the end . ’ |
| 33 | You know as well as I do how dangerous it is for a woman alone on the roads — any pervert could pick you up ! ’ |
| 34 | ‘ You know as well as I that both Benedict and Araminta have every moral right to enjoy whatever she had , while I have none at all . ’ |
| 35 | You know as well as I do . ’ |
| 36 | And you know as well as I do Jim was n't the father . |
| 37 | Let me put it to you this way you know as well as I do people who really ought to be doing something else other than teaching . |
| 38 | You know as well as I do , everybody watches what comes into ports these days , not what goes out . ’ |
| 39 | But you know as well as I do he meant you to be involved in a serious attempt at marriage . |
| 40 | But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ You know as well as I do that you want me to come to your room so you can make love to me ! ’ |
| 42 | ‘ You know as well as I do that ninety per cent of the population in Hong Kong live in apartments . |
| 43 | But you know as well as I do that not everybody responds to it . |
| 44 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 45 | The meaning that word has within these walls the saint knows as well as we . |
| 46 | He knows as well as we do that there is no guarantee that all the purchases will be made by buy-out teams which , as he said , may reasonably not be expected to reduce the quality of their pension schemes . |
| 47 | He knows as well as I do that , like the assisted places scheme , they are another step towards privatisation of the education system . |
| 48 | My hon. Friend knows as well as I do that no Government have brought the police force to such a level as this Conservative Government have done . |
| 49 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 50 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |