Example sentences of "i know [adv] well " in BNC.

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1 I tested this in three ways : by looking up an article on a subject which I feel I know reasonably well ; by looking up an article on a topic with which I am familiar ; and by looking for information on an area which I have heard about but of which I am largely ignorant .
2 I know pretty well where we went . ’
3 This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’
4 I know full well that , frankly speaking , prostitutes are bad , but I feel something human in them which prevents me from feeling the slightest scruple about associating with them … .
5 I know full well .
6 And then I know full well that I 'm well within the guidelines of not going over the thirteen amp that this is designed to operate at maximum efficiency and safety .
7 And I know full well now what it 's like to be standing on a picket line for seven months .
8 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 .
9 Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him .
10 But , in essence , it is a journey on wheels into the realms of beauty and grandeur I know so well and love so much .
11 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 .
12 I know bloody well what I 'm saying , ’ Gregson snapped , ‘ and if it 's any consolation it sounds as crazy to me as it probably does to you .
13 I know as well as you that I commissioned it .
14 If I were innocent , thought Rufus , I know very well what I would do .
15 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 .
16 I know very well that in many cases this is in the mind of the palaeontologist rather than in the rocky facts themselves .
17 Er a pity too and er also the villages erm in the in the area erm which I know very well and my and the Letchworth er Letchworth itself .
18 And I know very well how much you love them all — especially the old rogue Abuelo Freitas .
19 Oh no no , if he , if he tried to pull a fast one we 've already had one like that th that came in and bought a set unfortunately his father paid by cheque , oh no , well he paid by two cheques which , they had a card on them I know very well they ca n't stop them very well and he went out and er , and er the T V was only in the car and he went round a corner quick and he went brrrm like that you know
20 The only tha disaster I know very well is the Tay one the Tay Tay Bridge .
21 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 .
22 Of course , I know perfectly well why the Department of the Environment declines to list it .
23 I know perfectly well that certain of my colleagues have made some attempt to concern themselves with these questions .
24 There is Augustus DeMorgan : ‘ I know perfectly well what you are doing : YOU ARE CRAMMING FOR THE EXAMINATION .
25 ‘ Because I know perfectly well that there can be no sound evidence for such monstrous , silly accusations . ’
26 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 . ’
27 I know perfectly well , but I 'm not explaining if she does n't know what I 'm talking about .
28 ‘ But I know perfectly well that your welfare services would have put her into a home , if she was as poor as you claim — ’
29 ‘ Well , no , not when I know perfectly well that you love every minute of your life ! ’ she challenged .
30 I know perfectly well that when he was chairman of the Greater London council he wanted an elected police authority , and I think that he wanted to be chairman of it
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