Example sentences of "i [vb base] very well " in BNC.
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| 1 | I SELL very well in Spain . |
| 2 | I speak very well English , do n't you theenk ? |
| 3 | Emily and I manage very well . ’ |
| 4 | If I were innocent , thought Rufus , I know very well what I would do . |
| 5 | Because what I really want , after all , is to give them a true belief , and I know very well that , although I want my own beliefs to be true ( because that 's what makes them useful ) , we can all make mistakes . |
| 6 | I know very well that in many cases this is in the mind of the palaeontologist rather than in the rocky facts themselves . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I know very well how much you love them all — especially the old rogue Abuelo Freitas . |
| 9 | Oh no no , if he , if he tried to pull a fast one we 've already had one like that th that came in and bought a set unfortunately his father paid by cheque , oh no , well he paid by two cheques which , they had a card on them I know very well they ca n't stop them very well and he went out and er , and er the T V was only in the car and he went round a corner quick and he went brrrm like that you know |
| 10 | The only tha disaster I know very well is the Tay one the Tay Tay Bridge . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 13 | I mean I can remember the nineteen twenty , I I were n't sure whether it was the twenty one or the twenty six strike , and my father was erm on strike , you see , but the ponies had to be thus cared for in the field an I do n't think he received any pay and I remember very well erm going to the , my father applying for relief , and er we had to go and face the erm Court of Referees . |
| 14 | I remember very well from the moment that I fell from the boat and felt my feet strike some soft substance . |
| 15 | I remember very well Ben 's insistence that he wanted to retain that quartet . |
| 16 | I do n't quite know what 's , what happened , because I remember very well amending these details the last time it came to policy and resources , and that was agreed , because the changes you have made use the working , wording of the Thamesdown scheme , it seems to me far better , erm , as you have moved it , because er , very many people who are elderly , who are sixty-nine years or more or less do n't need any supervision at all . |
| 17 | I knit very well , and do not make mistakes |
| 18 | ‘ I understand very well indeed , Inspector . |
| 19 | I understand very well how people live year round in houseboats on the Seine , but not on the Thames , is n't it tidal ? " |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , yes , Feargal , I understand very well . |
| 21 | I understand very well the point that the hon. Member raises , having worn another hat previously when a major shipyard was one of my biggest concerns . |
| 22 | ‘ I understand very well , and may I suggest that you return to Piccadilly . |
| 23 | ‘ I understand , I understand very well . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I feel very well , very well indeed ! ’ he guffawed , a phrase he was to use throughout the night with growing conviction . |
| 25 | I keep very well really , I do quite a bit of walking , you know ? |
| 26 | But at once , for very fear that the bearded man who had reached out as I struggled with my hamper ( ‘ No , no , I do very well , thank you ’ ) might follow me and find out everything , I hailed a porter and then a cab , assuming a confidence I did not feel . |
| 27 | ‘ I do very well , ’ she said cheerfully . |
| 28 | and it 's cos they do n't understand them but you 're understanding them I think very well now so you 're going to like them . |
| 29 | Certain people have claimed that in group psychoanalysis and that I think is fraudulent , because they are not doing analysis they 're doing something different and erm I think it is something described I think very well in this book , although of course as we said this was written erm er group therapy . |
| 30 | er Margaret Becker put it I think very well in the concluding speech ; five years after a Labour government , judge us on the difference you will see in our economy and in our society . |