Example sentences of "those who knew [pron] well " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This includes all those who knew her well : the Lady Prioress , the two Sub-prioresses , and our comely Dame Agatha .
2 More interestingly , those who knew him well speak of his outstanding security .
3 Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning .
4 Rendel was a shy man , but confident in his views and , to those who knew him well , a shrewd , witty , and charming companion .
5 Connon was a hard man to startle in any case , as those who knew him well could vouch .
6 Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible .
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