Example sentences of "he knew all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew all the nurses and doctors too . |
| 2 | They called him a dunce at school , yet he knew all the words of the records on Sweetheart 's wind-up gramophone , and every song Buddie 's friends played when they got together with their instruments in the big downstairs room . |
| 3 | As the young secretary of the War Cabinet 's Manpower Requirements Committee , he had learned his craft from Bridges and Beveridge ; he was President of the Board of Trade and in the Cabinet at the age of thirty-one ; he had a sense of history , he was numerate and he knew all the tricks of political manipulation and presentation . |
| 4 | He knew all the others by name , by the names of their families for generations past . |
| 5 | He knew all the figures of spingleage pre-war and post-war and most of the figures of Japanese trade . |
| 6 | Because he knew all the individuals , he could keep track of who was getting the lion 's share of the meat . |
| 7 | He was a modest and unassuming man who never gave the impression that he knew all the answers . |
| 8 | After six years as Chairman , he knew all the important party figures and he became a dangerous foe ; in the National Union he combined with Selborne to mount a campaign against coalition and as a Birmingham MP he threatened even- Austen Chamberlain 's home base . |
| 9 | He knew all the places to go and all the people to know . |
| 10 | I learnt he was an old seaman who kept an inn , and he knew all the seamen in Bristol . |
| 11 | He knew all the moves . |
| 12 | The producer never laughed — perhaps he knew all the jokes — but Crawford landed the role of Junior Sailen . |
| 13 | the trouble was in many ways is the man that booked it had had thirty five years ' experience of removals , he knew all the country you see . |