Example sentences of "know well " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most startling yarn was that of Zhang Quo Zhi , who enjoyed a lifestyle which , if you did know better , you would describe as that of a successful capitalist . |
| 2 | You 'll know better in time , Miss . ’ |
| 3 | The facility with which not only politicians but people who should know better argue for education in the name of economic growth is frightening . |
| 4 | ‘ And who could know better than you ? |
| 5 | A Martian who had read the resolutions would know better . |
| 6 | Having completed this basic indoctrination , the budding smallholder will know better the joys and frustrations , the rewards and risks , the freedom and the discipline that make up farming . |
| 7 | If he failed at first , he would know better next time . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |
| 9 | As he worked , Harry muttered , ‘ If I did n't know better , I 'd say that was your Mr Butler on the bed there . ’ |
| 10 | If I did n't know better , I 'd say Bolan and Starr were obviously partaking a bit too copiously at this time . |
| 11 | For f— 's sake , Morrissey is nothing more than an enormously overrated writer of terminally dull pop songs and now for some obscure reason is regarded as the new rock messiah by every spotty , snot-nosed sixth former in Britain , as well as most of the English music press who should know better . |
| 12 | Newton ( erroneously regarded as a materialist by those who should know better ) was the one responsible for the Western scientific endorsement of ‘ ether ’ prior to 1 930 , having based his own work on much earlier sources , including the Greeks . |
| 13 | ‘ None can know better than your lordship the importance of Berwick Castle , ’ Ramsay went on . |
| 14 | ‘ You would think someone with her background would know better , ’ said Lewis . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh Mister Doyle … you should know better than that . ’ |
| 16 | I should know better by this time , because not only do these things then happen , but my machines do something even worse . |
| 17 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
| 18 | The appearance is such that if the viewer did not know better then he would say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ . |
| 19 | The point is , to an outsider who did n't know better , your actions could appear vindictive . ’ |
| 20 | Personally my advice is as in the diagram above and the box — though when all is said and done , it 's common sense , and you may know better . |
| 21 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 22 | ‘ On returning , I mentioned to Ronnie that if I did n't know better — having miscarried only five weeks before — I 'd think I was pregnant , ’ remembers Allison . |
| 23 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 24 | In the media generally and even sometimes by the " expert " — or pseudo-expert — who should know better , it is suggested that sexual intercourse should , to be satisfactory , always be multi-orgasmic , always be desired by both partners , always be infinitely skilful and mutually considerate and always be earth-shaking . |
| 25 | A comparison of the prospectuses for 1980–81 and 1986–87 of a number of institutions for this study suggested that , contrary to the arthritic stereotype purveyed sometimes by the press and others who should know better , degree provision in higher education is by no means static . |
| 26 | If I did n't know better I 'd think there was a man on the horizon . ’ |
| 27 | This is why bastards continue to score heavily with women who should know better . |
| 28 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 29 | ‘ I will know better next time . ’ |
| 30 | You should know better . |