Example sentences of "know the right [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an army in peacetime you have to arselick and know the right people if you want to get on . |
| 2 | ‘ If you paid to get in tonight you do n't know the right people , ’ he snaps , in a litany of barbed missiles that sting hardened fans and industry leeches alike . |
| 3 | If you know the right people it should n't be too hard to get rid of birds like mine . ’ |
| 4 | Because he 's known the right people . |
| 5 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 6 | As competition for places on the Kindertransporte mounted to panic proportions , the chances of success turned increasingly on knowing the right people — an official who could hurry through an application or , more critically , someone in Britain who was willing to take on the financial responsibility of acting as a guarantor . |
| 7 | To imply connectedness ( knowing the right people ) by including as many pers. comm. references as possible . |
| 8 | We are left in no doubt that fund-raising , and knowing the right people , are essential skills in scientific research . |
| 9 | I asked Gennaro how he came by the letter and he merely said that he knew the right people to approach . |
| 10 | The man who planned all these assassinations knows the right people inside Romania to do his murderous bidding . |
| 11 | The TD knows the right people at all levels of the bureaucracy and can pull innumerable strings . |
| 12 | And so , when the manager gets to 60 or so and is given his carriage clock and company pension ( if he is lucky ) , there is somebody to take over who knows the right people and can do the right things . |