Example sentences of "know so well " in BNC.

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1 And Lulach and Bishop Malduin , sitting side by side , might have belonged to different worlds : the Bishop grave and faintly uneasy , his eyes flickering across the table to the men of York and Durham and Bamburgh whom he must know so well .
2 When under attack — as Protestants should know so well — a beleaguered community tends to retreat towards a harder line .
3 I 'll , I 'll ask this other girl who I do n't know so well but I 'm sure if she 's going that way , she , you know , she 's in that area anyway .
4 The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change .
5 I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer .
6 ‘ Take care , ’ said Rufus , and not looking back any more than he had done when they returned from the cemetery , drove off round the town he had got to know so well , over the Stour bridge , into Essex , heading for Halstead and Dunmow and Ongar and London .
7 To me , when coming from the south , it means the beginning of the best , the gateway to the wonderful western seaboard , a region of lochs and glens and hills I have come to know so well after forty years of exploratory visits .
8 Most of them have been painted amid the West Riding fells that Mr Rocke has come to know so well .
9 For what seemed an age , she studied his features , strong lean features which she had come to know so well .
10 Possibly Daniel 's heart beat a little faster as he caught sight of the Cumberland mountains which he had come to know so well .
11 What they 've done to the streets you used to know so well ? ’
12 Excitement mounted ; the hills we got to know so well ; on the left Heathmynd , then Rhadley and Linley Hill ; and then on the right the dramatic landmark of the Beech Avenue curling over the top of Norbury .
13 She was barely able to breathe as she looked up into his features , still strong but without that harsh granite edge she 'd come to know so well .
14 The obvious and popular choice was Hilary Weedon , whom they have come to know so well through her numerous visits to the Medau College over the years .
15 And , as we know so well , the Holy Spirit fell on the day of pentecost with tongues as of fire .
16 postman Pat 's lifelike van , and Jess the Cat , all combine to bring to life on stage the world of Greendale which children know so well from their television screens .
17 As directors of horror movies know so well , there is no better way to scare their audience than to have some unidentified object flash suddenly on to the screen , very close to the hero 's face .
18 It is not just a historic document of immense important , it is a fascinating insight into what a really great pianist can do to the music we all know so well .
19 just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal .
20 For instance , sea slugs , a type of mollusc , live in the tidal zones around our coasts and most species are more brightly coloured than the equivalent land slugs which we know so well .
21 These are n't the morbid denizens of the void we know so well ( from other Penelope Spheeris movies ) , these are no sallow-skinned satanists .
22 But , in essence , it is a journey on wheels into the realms of beauty and grandeur I know so well and love so much .
23 Some of our precious time spent at Low Birk Hatt is taken up by a steady stream of Hannah 's admirers , making a pilgrimage to a place they know so well from the television programmes and books .
24 No , that was oh that chap who had painted Venice such a lot , absolutely recognisable , he could see the frontages of the palaces now , what was the man 's name , the sort of name you know so well you could n't think of it when it was n't in your mind .
25 ’ Not as far , however , as the road from Dungannon to Madrid which his engineers know so well .
26 Mr Wood , who retires later this year , said : ‘ The society 's strong financial base will ensure that we are well able to maintain our key objective of remaining an independent financial unit serving the needs of the local community we know so well . ’
27 Mr Wood said of the figures : ‘ The society 's strong financial base will ensure that we are well able to maintain our key objective of remaining an independent financial unit serving the needs of the local community we know so well .
28 So what did they think of Hollywood 's treatment of the kind of scenes they know so well ?
29 He smiles with the familiar grin I know so well , but this time I see those eyes of loneliness , as if there 's something no-one could understand , hidden by his visage of cheerfulness .
30 You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out .
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