Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Tolkien perhaps found such opinions in a work he knew well , King Alfred the Great 's personal translation of Boethius into Old English . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You can write about the sort of person you know well , or even are . |
| 8 | When you are a newcomer to a group take a friend you know well along with you . |
| 9 | Is the devil we know better than the devil we do n't know ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As on the last occasion , he had chosen County Monaghan which was an area he knew well and adjacent to the Ulster border . |
| 14 | A woman he knew well before he began his affair with Marje . |
| 15 | The bower they knew well already . |
| 16 | The position is , of course , quite different if the witness knows the person concerned well enough to say : ‘ I was hit by a man I know well and whose name is Jack Spratt . ’ |
| 17 | It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a lovely evening , my dear Watson , ’ said a voice I knew well . |
| 19 | Erm , and when they did complain to somebody , like a company man you know well that 's all the farther it went . |
| 20 | This was not the simple old man she knew well , sometimes annoyingly obstinate , but usually easy to coax or control with a smile . |
| 21 | Two years after her conversion to strictness of life , she was sexually attracted to a man she knew well , although she seems to have had just before this a grandiose sense of her own imperviousness to sin . |
| 22 | It was a technique he employed when grilling a suspect he knew well . |
| 23 | he 's got a totally short hand you know well , yeah |
| 24 | It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks . |
| 25 | It was a shape she knew well , and her hand fell to the covers . |
| 26 | Although I 've no doubt you know better than we do what the opposition are |
| 27 | I will ask a family I know well , out in the country , if you can stay with them . ’ |
| 28 | Time you knew better , young lady . |
| 29 | I expect you need a chap you know well , someone you feel comfortable with , not these one-nighters . ’ |
| 30 | This time we knew better . |