Example sentences of "[verb] well [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |
| 2 | If I did n't know better I 'd think there was a man on the horizon . ’ |
| 3 | If I did n't know better I 'd think he was trying to be as diplomatic possible in order to keep himself in line for the England job . |
| 4 | We also have a sort of partnership with other institutions in understanding better our stake in it and other people 's stake in it . |
| 5 | Only I just turned into grocery because you could n't get fruit , when you want Well you had a bit but not much . |
| 6 | In our situation we had an incident — trivial by comparison with Peter 's — which illustrates well what may happen when someone has a teachable spirit . |
| 7 | The case below illustrates well what is involved . |
| 8 | I mean erm you know erm when I go to the London Group erm we all know that erm actually er there 's a kind of , there 's an inner feeling you know well we 've got the right computers , we , we 're the you know , we , we believe computing and we , we 're very sorry you know we 're erm we may not actively despise them , but we , we 're sorry that they have to bother with such an awful operating system and everything else . |
| 9 | Do n't know well it 's probably near erm three or four hundred years or something . |
| 10 | The kind of girl that even if you did n't know well you always said ‘ hello ’ to and got a cheery wave and a smile back . |
| 11 | Erm so they 'd wan na know well you know if it 's a shopping change then erm , do you want me to change the day ? |
| 12 | Well he 's or something , I do n't know well he 's got |
| 13 | Er of course one went , started work , very nervous , and er thought that everybody was sort of putting a tape measure and er Oh to tell you the t truth I I did n't know Well I knew there was one apprentice been there about twelve months or nearly twelve months . |
| 14 | You say well what are we going to do with those two left over ? |
| 15 | and , and they really really get me you sort of say well what do you spend your money on ? |
| 16 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 17 | I say well what 's , what 's happening here , what are they doing ? |
| 18 | But whereas anyone order from this company say well what do you want ? |
| 19 | Yes , and every time I go in there , I say well what you know Barry and he did n't tell me that , he thought I already knew |
| 20 | Here , here , I second that on H on page thirty one very important one , the county council welcomes the recognition by the joint working party of the importance of meaningful support services to the elected members and the recomme recommendation that the Secretary of State should review and clarify the powers of local authorities to meet costs of services provided to members to enable them to carry out their duties as councillors Now the erm members appointments , appointments of member services sub have been discussing this issue and I would like to point out to members that we are not claiming the amount allowable for the paying members allowances we erm we 're way below the limit that 's allowable by the government Now before anyone say well what have you done about it ? |
| 21 | He says , you know , what do you think and I say well look it 's up to you and I put the question back to him and say well what do you think ? |
| 22 | They want new apparatus for their labs ; they want new textbooks and new books in the library , and they find they 're having to compete with bits for microcomputers and they say well what about a good book , is n't that better ? |
| 23 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 24 | yeah , well with the on the van as well , so he try and put a bit more you know , and they say well they do the same , they used to have a |
| 25 | My tea , my science teacher my science teacher , she said to me , , he used say well they bunk off out of their lessons , they hit the teachers , she goes , cos she worked in there , |
| 26 | I would agree er , that it 's strange er once you start something , I mean people come up and say well we 've got a whole information bank here and other people have a whole information bank there and yet the ability of people who are caring , for adults or children , to get out , run round forty agencies and come home loaded with leaflets , pushing three children and a parent , you know is is quite difficult ! |
| 27 | and be counted , but I think we 've tended to stand back and just say well we know it 's going on but what is actually being done to these |
| 28 | Or you could take a bit of a short cut say well we 've already got twelve there thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen and so on . |
| 29 | What about the ones where they say well we 'll repair it for you ? |
| 30 | That 's what they say well we have this silly game that we play on the number line , going up and down the thing and when you do three start from three , count seven in the opposite direction we finish up at this number called minus four . |