Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know well " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 2 | The special educational needs support service ( SENSS ) that I know well now has a structured hierarchy to ensure that available staffing resources are distributed through the borough according to needs . |
| 3 | But the energy was still there , we know full well , that there 's other MPs there , I think it 's thirty seven we 've got and we , the only one that I know well is Gerald Kaufman . |
| 4 | In my own drama teaching I rarely use games with a class that I know well , but when I 'm working with a class that I 've not met before I often begin the session with a short concentration exercise and then a simple game . |
| 5 | He said in a letter to shareholders : ‘ I believe that I know better than anyone what makes Amstrad operate and what needs to be done in order to secure its future . |
| 6 | ‘ Give what ? ’ she asked , although she knew well what he meant . |
| 7 | She ambled down roads and along paths that she knew well and she failed to record what she saw . |
| 8 | 3 Make up a table like this for all the dialect words in the story : 4 Tell this story , or a story of your own , in your own dialect , or a dialect that you know well . |
| 9 | And this is really important — you should never , ever assume that you know better than they , what they want — and never let anyone else persuade you that they know better than you , what you want . |
| 10 | For once we feel that we know better than Mozart . |
| 11 | The books are confident that we know better |
| 12 | And this is really important — you should never , ever assume that you know better than they , what they want — and never let anyone else persuade you that they know better than you , what you want . |
| 13 | Secondly , they were talking about types of lender that they knew well enough at least to find approachable . |
| 14 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 15 | For on the tenth day he sent forward another deputation under the flag of truce to declare that he knew well of the shortages in the beleaguered town and that they would soon be in desperate straits . |
| 16 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
| 17 | In our family my cousins and I knew well beforehand because there were always slightly older sisters and cousins who told us … |
| 18 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 19 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 20 | and we know better than to surrender . |
| 21 | The knights of the eleventh century , not being socialised in the ‘ literate mentality ’ of these later historians , knew well enough that such institutions were not simply a ‘ neutral ’ bureaucracy guaranteeing the ‘ objectivity ’ of written documents , and they knew well enough , too , how these documents were untrustworthy . |
| 22 | He never gave an explanation and they knew better than to ask , but they guessed it would be a problem connected with his increasing consumption of drink . |
| 23 | Graham was only a little impatient , and he knew better than to try to hurry Slater up . |
| 24 | More than five years of rebellions and civil war had honed his instincts to a fine edge , and he knew better than to ignore them . |
| 25 | Harry folded his arms , smiled as if he knew better and strolled about the room . |
| 26 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 27 | She makes my tea with the same water she boils the eggs , she says she do n't but I know better and you know what that does . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh you say that but I know better . |
| 29 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 30 | But you know better than that , do n't you , Liu Chang ? |