Example sentences of "knew very " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew very well this was n't the right face . |
| 2 | Despite the assurances of the Director of his Department that he was favourably looked upon , and despite the fact that there was no doubt that at his office he was being treated with a subtle air of respect , nothing formal or official about his promotion had been announced ; and as he knew very well , a change of Directorship , a shift in Government economic policy , even a chill wind in international relations , could mean the end of his hopes . |
| 3 | I went to a special sports school — not Leipzig , ’ she added hastily , to a nod from Erika who knew very well what Leipzig meant in the athletic world of the G.D.R. , the absolute , superlative top — ‘ but I was a second rater there . |
| 4 | But Charles knew very little and nothing at all about management , business and finance . |
| 5 | My hands are never clammy , and something told me that Aunt Louise knew very well who had touched her . |
| 6 | Although he knew very well he 'd lost the battle , he still felt a need to justify . |
| 7 | Gaily knew very little about the ways of church services , and so he sat halfway towards the back , looking at the coffin and the windows full of pale saints carrying lilies and the dust motes in the groin of the roof . |
| 8 | They knew very well that the manager kept several pounds of their winnings , but could n't object , as every other betting shop had barred them . |
| 9 | We still knew very little about them . |
| 10 | But the great monarchs of the sixteenth century knew very well how to use that adulation to enhance their power . |
| 11 | But Knox could always afford to be a great deal more cavalier about the dangers of rebellion against established authority than those who , being themselves great lords who ruled over men , knew very well the chaos which could result if the bonds of obedience and loyalty were violently broken . |
| 12 | If she did , it was an existence fraught with danger , for she knew very well Wild Will was capable of murder . |
| 13 | Christine , however , knew very well that it was n't the distance that kept Miss Miggs from travelling to Gridford , but the railway fare . |
| 14 | For example , when I began researching into social aspects of book reading I knew very little at all about publishing or bookselling and my experience of libraries was mainly limited to being a user of them . |
| 15 | I knew very well I 'd not got an uncle in America . |
| 16 | Littler was a wily businessman who knew very well that things were difficult for them and realized how badly they needed his business . |
| 17 | They liked to check on the weather situation after briefing — they knew very well their lives could depend on the forecast . |
| 18 | All four works present the same sort of world — the teeming , overgrown , majestic Amazonian rainforest that Villa-Lobos knew very well . |
| 19 | He knew very well that , without my running to and fro , the passengers mostly would n't be bothered to move to drink , so he accepted fast , no doubt considering me a mug as well as an actor . |
| 20 | Jennifer knew very well what her future held — her marriage to Steven was imminent . |
| 21 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew very quickly that to get the kitchen exactly how we wanted it , we 'd have to swap rooms around on the ground floor . |
| 23 | When Diana first consulted Penny the princess revealed that she was interested in astrology , but knew very little about it . |
| 24 | His attitude to Theo hardening daily , he said he knew very well that ‘ whether Father and Mother take it quietly or not will three-fourths depend on what you tell them . ’ |
| 25 | He knew very well that fear of Securitate informers was as effective a way of hamstringing opposition as actually deploying agents in the field . |
| 26 | Ceauşescu knew very well from his travels to so many poor countries ( including some getting poorer even more rapidly than his own ) that he was not alone in promoting a cult of himself . |
| 27 | Benny knew very well that her mother 's day was far from full . |
| 28 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 29 | We knew very little about these last clients of the season except that they were two attorneys and a proctologist , all from Georgia and all vacationing with their wives , and we also knew that one of the wives was a vegetarian and that the proctologist hated pasta , but beyond that our guests were utter strangers and so we waited nervously to see what kind of people would be our companions and paymasters for the next week . |
| 30 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |