Example sentences of "he has [be] know " in BNC.
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1 | Kelly trains as hard as the rest of the squad at a sports centre in nearby Stone , but according to the team 's joint manager , Ken Roberts , he has been known to polish off three Chinese take-aways afterwards . |
2 | He has been known to ban from his salon journalists who have criticised Saint Laurent 's more feeble efforts . |
3 | Before the 1987 General Election he had a stand-up row over defence policy with Lord Callaghan , the former Labour Prime Minister , in the House of Commons tea-room , and he has been known to square up to Tories who have enraged him . |
4 | In fact , his phenomenal memory for facts and figures ( he has been known to correct Scottish former international rugby players on the score at half time of matches they had played in ) , combined with a genuine interest in people , made him ideal for the part and , from the day he joined TMcL a year before qualifying , his career took off . |
5 | He has , says a friend , a taste for fast driving and also has a private pilot 's licence — he has been known to take friends on duty-free trips to the Continent . |
6 | He has been known to refuse autographs by pleading that he 's nothing special and really does n't warrant such attention . |
7 | If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work . |
8 | He has been known to buy entire collections that please him , as he did some time ago with the modern Italian co-operative Memphis , or more recently with the furniture designer André Dubreuil . |
9 | His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport . |
10 | What has happened with him since , since he became more of a big newspaper owner , is he shifted from that and he has been known to support a Labour government in Australia and a Tory government in Britain at the same time and George Bush in the United States while supporting Keating or Bob Hawk in Australia . |
11 | He has been known to use a rotary sander to put over his message , not to speak of dancing on broken glass — and no damage done ! |