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Example sentences for "jolly well"

  • Alastair Kinloch, from the top of the Trent coach, screams out, "Jolly well muffed!

  • If he does, he's jolly well mistaken, as far as I'm concerned.

  • I'll jolly well be tickled pink, I can tell you.

  • If you want my opinion, I think British Middle East Command is jolly well sure that Hitler is going to do something about it.

  • Well, jolly well hurry up, Dawson, and earn some of that pay today!

  • A good job, and I'm jolly well proud of you.

  • And when I do, you'll jolly well know it, too.

  • With the windows that dirty, I fancy he jolly well has to have some sort of a light inside.

  • Too old for any regular military work, but we're jolly well glad to do what we can to help.

  • One wants to get out the worst way but has to stay in till he's jolly well cured.

  • To be "jolly well even" with him, Mrs. Skaggs did a most priggish thing.

  • This is an enchanted garden, and that's an enchanted castle, and I'm jolly well going to explore.

  • You'll jolly well find, that bodies count.

  • I'll jolly well never go again," said the Boy, with indignation.

  • I dare say you thought we were kissing behind the door, but we jolly well weren't!

  • But I hope that little is to the point; and I jolly well mean it.

  • Not in the usual acceptance of that term; but you're pure gold, and I'm jolly well glad I've found a girl like you.

  • Jolly well done of you, kid--you're a stunner.

  • Anyway the Government got us into the war; they're jolly well bound to feed us through it.

  • Only if you think I shan't mind if you get yourself put in quad, you're jolly well mistaken.

  • And if father thinks I'm going to give up Arthur, he's jolly well mistaken,' said the boy with energy.

  • Well," said the gentleman, "you've jolly well stolen my stunt.

  • She rode 'Jolly well,' too, so that it had been all the more flattering that she had let him lead her where he would in the long gallops of Richmond Park, though she knew them so much better than he did.

  • It was all his fault for shouting out "run", and with those bullets kicking up the ground and flying past, I jolly well couldn't stop myself when once I had started.

  • He looked as if he'd jolly well like to have tried, but he had to obey orders.

  • Is it because you're 'jolly well fed up' with foreigners that you like to ape English slang?

  • But don't forget we've jolly well got to put our foot down.

  • And we jolly well wished he might find her.

  • There's jolly well something to wake up for today.

  • We've jolly well got to get used to its hurting OUR golden feet,' said Cyril.

  • We've jolly well GOT to keep the cats all night--oh, get down, you furry beasts!

  • One was to stand straight upright and then sit down on the floor without bending his knees, and he did it so jolly well that it nearly shook the ornaments off the mantelpiece, and the bump frightened them all.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    administered from; also present; chemical combination; composite plants; crossing the; dear mama; distinguished member; fear and; fluoric acid; great point; jolly glad; jolly good; jolly time; jolly well; largely composed; made like; nearly allied; religious enthusiasm; roll them; seek refuge; since otherwise; third volume; thought and; toasted bread; upright stones