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Example sentences for "knew very"

  • I knew very well at that moment I had deliberately added to my peril, in a blind fearless sort of a way, that causes me a shudder as I write it down here to-day.

  • The address was not in Mrs. Daniver's handwriting, but one that I knew very well.

  • Helena made no outcry, but that horror possessed her I knew very well, for every reason told us that our case was desperate.

  • He knew very little of Margaret; and had scarcely seen her once in two years.

  • So far, he knew very well, the attempt to get the Religious Houses into the King's power had only partially succeeded.

  • Mary, he knew very well, would assent to it quietly as she did to all normal events, even though they were not what she would have wished; and probably her husband would assent too, for he had a great respect for a churchman.

  • That the money Ada brought him was melting away with the candles I used to see burning after dark in Mr. Vholes's office I knew very well.

  • Regulating my purchases by my guardian's taste, which I knew very well of course, I arranged my wardrobe to please him and hoped I should be highly successful.

  • He knew very well, I think, that I was on some business, and that therefore I was in some danger too at such a time; though I had never spoken to him of it.

  • I knew very well, however, that my principal reason why I urged Peter on over the bad roads, was that I might see her the more quickly.

  • A year ago I should have thought nothing of it; but I was down in the world now, I knew very well, and I had enemies who would stick at nothing.

  • But she would see through it all: that I knew very well.

  • He knew very well, that in his love for Lucie, his renunciation of his social place, though by no means new to his own mind, had been hurried and incomplete.

  • Baron Guido von Grabow, one of the secretaries of the Prussian Legation whom I knew very well, married Mrs. Edward Boyce, whose maiden name was Nina Wood.

  • Quite a number of years subsequent to this event, before they had children of their own, they adopted a little girl whom they named Julia and whom I knew very well in my early girlhood.

  • The man that admitted me, an ancient retainer of Raoul's whom I knew very well, changed hue when he saw me, and asked me with trembling voice whether I had brought news of his master.

  • Twas drawing towards evening when we came to the town and reined up at the door of the Belle Etoile, a hostelry that I knew very well.

  • He said nothing, and after a while Cornelius remarked, in a tone of complete indifference, that there was another way out of the river which he knew very well.

  • I knew very well he was of those about whom there is no inquiry; I had seen better men go out, disappear, vanish utterly, without provoking a sound of curiosity or sorrow.

  • I knew very well he was not alluding to his duties; he had an easy time of it with De Jongh.

  • George Sand he knew very well, and she made ardent love to him; but he laughed her off very much as the elder Dumas did.

  • Adrienne, who was left behind in Paris, knew very little of what was going on.

  • He was known in Edinburgh as likely to be a man of mark; and, of course, he had had a careful training in many subjects of which she, as yet, knew very little.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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