Example sentences of "everybody knows [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Boo lives in a town where the people are very religious , but narrow minded and intolerant of those who do not conform to their very rigid code of social behaviour , and where everybody knows everyone else because the same families have lived there for generations .
2 If everybody knows everybody else and they all go to the same parties , then there is bound to be a certain unanimity , if not in their judgements at least in their objects of attention .
3 There were not many people like that in a sparsely populated area where everybody knows everybody else .
4 It 's a wee community , everybody knows everybody . ’
5 Everybody knows everybody else , and we all get on well .
6 It 's quite a nice little town , everybody knows everybody , and they do n't like to feel that they 're going to be outside of the sort of social circle that they move in , so it does have that effect in keeping them under control .
7 And everybody knows everything .
8 Everybody knows what foreigners are like . ’
9 These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it .
10 Gill takes bookings for functions throughout the university , rings in the chef 's orders , types memos and ensures everybody knows what 's on .
11 Everybody knows what a homebuilt aircraft consists of : a single , two-stroke engine , two seats and and an airframe composed of various combinations of metal , fabric and composite .
12 For a routine operation in which everybody knows what they are doing high involvement and high intensity are less critical .
13 Well , everybody knows what happens in the end .
14 Everybody knows what weaning is mm ?
15 Traditionally , every spring , a campaign is launched , but this year we must hold a special campaign to ensure that everybody knows what the way ahead will be .
16 or you ca n't have a lunch break , but she did n't , she just automatically assumes that everybody knows what 's going on in her head be that everybody else should know as well , yeah anyway I 've got to go Matt 's shouting , he 's obviously having problems plumbing the dishwasher , god his little cotton socks , so we 'll see you later , alright then , see you later on ta ta .
17 Why I suppose being all those sort of songs , everybody knows them .
18 He does n't know anybody , but everybody knows him ( FN 29/4/87 , p. 16 ) .
19 Everybody knows him here , but he is n't a name in America or the rest of the world .
20 Everybody knows me .
21 He quotes Maxwell himself as boasting ‘ I sure as hell have got control and everybody knows it ’ ( Hetherington , 1985 , pp. 28–9 ) .
22 It 's the same as knee-capping , and everybody knows it , but much kinder .
23 We 're both losers , Don , and everybody knows it .
24 Everybody knows it exists . ’
25 Whenever I answer the phone at work , every time I pick it up everybody knows it 's me , you know , cos I 'm the only Londoner in the office .
26 Everybody knows it 's mine in moon , postman went
27 He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through .
28 Everybody knows 'er , ’ I said .
29 Everybody knows I 'm ambitious .
30 Obviously , unlike the bar in TV 's Cheers , Maxwell 's Plum was not a place ‘ where everybody knows your name ’ .
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