Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] know well " in BNC.

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1 I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action .
2 The concerns about what to wear , the latest haircuts and how to deal with acne were subjects I knew well — and I could identify with the girls ' interests too .
3 And she says Jean you know well you can see er she says you know the day before Ros was in Lisburn and she says you know the way when you 're standing and from the back you can feel somebody that their eyes are penetrating through you and she said she happened to turn round and there she 's sitting in , in this girl 's car and just er looked at her like that .
4 Pick three subjects you know well , such as your hobby , your job , and your mother .
5 Then the seas settled a little , and a boat came , carrying a crew he recognised and a Skyeman he knew well , but who would not meet his eye .
6 If the job is very important it may be worth the cost of sending some one whose work you know well to cover the assignment .
7 Tolkien perhaps found such opinions in a work he knew well , King Alfred the Great 's personal translation of Boethius into Old English .
8 He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well .
9 Well , there was a porter there , called Len and he , he was eighteen and er of course you know well I I was as I said sixteen , so he was a bit older than me but he , whilst he was at Needham he said well when I 'm eighteen I 'll get my calling up papers .
10 Eric of Mallion , which forms a connection between those early pathfinders and the dogs we know better by virtue of their being crowned as champions .
11 In Yorkshire they know better .
12 Health care will then be denied its proper role and that is clearly seen in the discharge of elderly people into the community and a point he knows well because he 's heard it from me before , without the necessary disabled facilities being in place for those elderly people and it is his department that decided to put the disabled facilities grant in the basic credit allowance to compete against over local authority priorities in that section .
13 Robin I knew well .
14 You can write about the sort of person you know well , or even are .
15 When you are a newcomer to a group take a friend you know well along with you .
16 We heard there was shooting and shelling in a part of Sarajevo we knew well .
17 Is the devil we know better than the devil we do n't know ?
18 He reached out for something outside his prison and found The Rights of Man , he concentrated on passages he knew well and summoned them up word for word .
19 ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead .
20 So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time .
21 Choose people you know well and trust and with whom you can share the details of your affairs .
22 One of them turned on Holly-Tallis and she fled up the path to the gate , passing a woman she knew well , remembering her earlier shock at this unexpected encounter .
23 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 .
24 On the days when he used to leave her a note in the morning she knew well enough that there was no good to be hoped for in replying to it .
25 But the self that gets revealed in the novel 's action is a bundle of contradictions , like some people we know well .
26 Then , we will contrast each of these with accounts of first meetings with people we know well .
27 As on the last occasion , he had chosen County Monaghan which was an area he knew well and adjacent to the Ulster border .
28 Picasso worked mostly from memory , but when he used models for his figure pieces they were usually people he knew well , his friends and mistresses .
29 A woman he knew well before he began his affair with Marje .
30 The bower they knew well already .
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