Example sentences of "[conj] i know [adv] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 2 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 3 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
| 4 | And I know full well now what it 's like to be standing on a picket line for seven months . |
| 5 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 6 | And I know perfectly well Croxford is a crummy school , but it suits me and I suit it , which does n't say a lot for either of us . ’ |
| 7 | And I know perfectly well that there 's no way that er I could get my wife to move out of the town , she loves it . |
| 8 | Because what I really want , after all , is to give them a true belief , and I know very well that , although I want my own beliefs to be true ( because that 's what makes them useful ) , we can all make mistakes . |
| 9 | And I know very well how much you love them all — especially the old rogue Abuelo Freitas . |
| 10 | I mean ah I know I know but then he 's pretty tied up and I know very well but even trying to get lunch with is difficult but there may be there may be I mean I know quite well but would want . |
| 11 | I would have loved to have stayed because I really enjoy things like that , I love discos and get up and have a dance but I knew damn well that if I did I 'd be absolutely shattered today and I , I just would n't be with it so I , I said to Matthew I 'm going up . |
| 12 | But I knew very well the ones with fruits that we could eat , that provided food for birds , that had special flowers . |
| 13 | ‘ But I know perfectly well that your welfare services would have put her into a home , if she was as poor as you claim — ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Because I know perfectly well that there can be no sound evidence for such monstrous , silly accusations . ’ |
| 15 | I had the temerity to object to these insertions , because I knew full well from years of grubbing in the darker recesses of the phylum that the changes were in the mind rather than in the matter . |
| 16 | the magazine had the final say on the format of the finished pattern , so I found myself having to pass over things like ‘ Take off on a hand knitting needle ’ when I knew full well that it would be much easier to ‘ take off on waster yarn ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Why ca n't I keep away from you , ’ he demanded , ‘ when I know damned well I have n't the right — ’ He did n't finish his sentence . |