How To Use Knack In A Sentence
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Of course the bulk of those opulent knick-knacks manufactured for the Carolingian and Ottonian Emperors, and now to be seen at Aachen, are as beastly as anything else that is made simply to be precious.
Art
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The hard-throwing Weaver has a knack for challenging left-handed hitters in a manner that reminds me of a young Frank Tanana.
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Well I can ask the same question on my knackered old gas cooker.
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As evidenced by his seven interceptions this season, he's a ballhawk who has a knack for popping up in unexpected places.
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There is no floral chintz, no shelves packed with knick-knacks; there's no ornate wrought iron, no statuary, no bookshelves.
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Browsing the shops is the main pastime: the stores offer rural knick-knacks and antiques as well as a fair amount of New Age wares such as quartz crystals, incense burners and Indian rugs.
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Remove knick-knacks, tabletop ornaments, stuffed toys, books, magazines and newspapers from your bedroom and minimize dust collectors in other rooms.
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Problem is that he has to get down with Karl Lagefeld though at least hes lost the lard-remember when he was a fat knacker??
Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
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Businesses selling seasonal knick-knacks at discount prices are popping up all over Greater Manchester.
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But to want to see the back of chick-lit because you've read too many blurbs that feature a single girl with too many shoes and a Martini habit is a bit like consigning pop music to the knackers' yard just because you don't like The X Factor.
Should we mourn the end of chick-lit?
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The wrought-iron etagere and assorted knick-knacks, their rock-maple dinette set, pine bedroom suite.
Garden
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I'm on a railway platform trying to get to work during a period of heavy storms (service is totally knacked) and I'm in uniform with a crowd around me seriously dis-chuffed and about to remove my nipple rings without unclipping them.
I HATE COMPUTERS ( a therapy intermission)
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He just had that amazing knack of picking great songs - whether it was punk, techno, jazz, blues, rock, pop or rap.
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This plainly shows that a manual knack can be learnt only slowly.
Choice, Rationality, and Social Theory
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The 25-35 litre daysacks are generally used and carried to provide storage for every day items such as sun cream, camera and all the other knick-knacks that come in handy.
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Yet for almost two hours he carried the crowd with genuine charm and a canny knack of making his fans feel like friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thereafter, he seemed to have an unerring knack for picking the wrong script.
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The gifts can be anything from a roll of quarters at the laundromat to an inspirational knick-knack that is guaranteed to spark a smile.
'Secret Agent L' Unmasks Identity To Further Charity Work
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He continues to make tough catches, runs well after the catch and seems to have a knack for getting open.
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He also taught him the knack of solving cryptic clues in crossword puzzles.
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The sausage had a taste that was very ‘central European,’ resembling a knackwurst, though there were some elements of chorizo flavour in there as well.
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But it does have a tremendous knack for upstaging its neighbour.
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When Ralph buys a racehorse, Tony discovers he has a knack for picking the ponies.
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He has the great comic's knack for joining two unconnected thoughts and making the jump feel not just natural but also necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Past efforts at de-knackering it have proved fruitless
Yesterday, Sweden’s IPRED. So?
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Making an omelette is easy once you've got the knack .
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Try rearranging your altar items, changing around your knick-knacks or moving a piece of furniture from here to there.
Donna Henes: Sunny Suggestions For Coping With S.A.D.-ness
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Big box (foreground): More halloumi, Ajvar, cherry tomatoes, fried zucchini chips, baked potato wedges, and a piece of Knäck.
Swedish Christmas Candy – Knäck! « Were rabbits
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Celebrate that space bloke fixing his knackered old shuttle by playing the Solar Games.
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My second oldest brother, who is nine years older than me, always had the happy knack of being able to bustle me.
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And so it came to pass that daily thereafter did we practise for an hour or so in the armoury with sword and buckler, and with every lesson my proficiency with the iron grew in a manner that Falcone termed prodigious, swearing that I was born to the sword, that the knack of it was in the very blood of me.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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I had to have a little snooze this afternoon as I was completely knackered.
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After 48 hours on the road, I'm knackered.
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'Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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If "Wall-E" were a romantic comedy, it would be about a humble garbageman who falls for a supermodel who also happens to be a top scientist with a knack for marksmanship.
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That ghostly figure hanging round Man City's training ground rattling his knacked legs, is none other than Roque Santa Cruz: he's been left out of the club's Big Vase group stage squad.
Obsequious To The Point Of Becoming A Human Suppository
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One defintion of a knacker is "a person who purchases or hauls away livestock carcasses for processing into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
Green Tomato Finale
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The new cabinet, though it lacks experience of executive power, has obviously learned the old knacks of governing.
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She was sitting at the foot of the sofa watching TV, obviously knackered, whilst Dom played with his fire engine.
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And I have to know it, because there's going to be a jury of these knacky folks, and they're going to decide whether Makepeace Smith is a plain liar, or I am.
Alvin Journeyman
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Or maybe the electronic engine control unit is knackered.
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We were knackered by the time got back ... but on the way we went via the "crookedest" street that just winds up and down ... its at the end of the road our hotels on ...
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It was mainly ladies who queued to get tickets, housewives, and Sel had a knack with them.
MR STARLIGHT
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A bathroom brand with a smart modern range of baths, basins, showers and brassware, plus a knack for novelty.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact it was rigged with what looked suspiciously like 10 year old and totally knackered Oxford gear!
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Businesses selling seasonal knick-knacks at discount prices are popping up all over Greater Manchester.
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But she's also got a knack for handling your cares and worries and, when it's all too much, your tears.
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With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
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He walks off the pitch looking absolutely knackered.
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Sidonie was an 'etagere' covered with childish toys, petty, trivial knickknacks, microscopic fans, dolls 'tea-sets, gilded shoes, little shepherds and shepherdesses facing one another, exchanging cold, gleaming, porcelain glances.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Beyond an oaken dressing-table, with an orderly litter of combs and brushes and dainty feminine knickknacks, there was no sign of its being used as a bedroom.
Chapter XVIII
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He is, after all, wearing a knick-knack festooned with their skeleton-and-roses logo.
Times, Sunday Times
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This particular knick-knack is a good starting point if you want to know who this man is.
Times, Sunday Times
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And now I'm knackered and going to lie down on the bed, squish my new do with my headset and yak to Walker until it's time for work.
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At times this season, it has been easy to wonder whether the Italian has learnt this knack.
Times, Sunday Times
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Orton, Quinn and Plummer all have that knack for the 'doh' moment at precisely the wrong time.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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I'm always drawn to the endless knickknacks in kitchenware departments.
The Sun
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During this campaign he displayed one of his greatest skills, the knack of surrounding himself with the right people.
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Sunday sees jazz/ska outfit Knackers mixing jazz standards with ska rhythms.
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Boxes littered the kitchen table, each one packed with knick-knacks and pictures that had been removed from the shelves and walls.
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A year and a half of job-hunting has rather knackered my confidence, but I reckon I can fake it till I make it.
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I am knackered today, and think I need an early night tonight!
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There are several knick-knack stores, a few jewelers, restaurants and motels.
We Will Elevate (Part One)
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There was a lot of stuff stored on the front porch: old bedroom sets and mattresses, paintings, knick-knacks, and paper grocery bags containing newspapers.
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Second, Coerver and Hall exhibit a knack for casting recent events in historical perspective.
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They have an uncanny knack of toppling the walls that society or circumstance build between people.
Times, Sunday Times
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And to get a slant on how to bring the big picture into focus, we turned to business futurists who have a knack for forecasting economic and technological trends.
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I would dearly love to spend the time on the 20% of decent, honest, genuine victims but I really dont have the time due to having to trace knacker Ned to update him on how the investigation into his complaint of “theft of giro” is coming along.
How “Police Performance” Fraud Works. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Her desk was long and perfectly organized, no papers astray, knick-knacks aligned along her bookshelf along with portraits of her children, I assumed.
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The last week or so has been such a whirl; I've either been rushing about doing stuff, else I've been flaked out knackered from the rushing!
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The latter had a knack for persuading descendants of Chinese nobles to part with their inherited treasures, including rare paintings and porcelains with imperial provenances.
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When Matthew Oates, the National Trust's roving butterfly expert, first described this affliction, it sounded quite pleasant: by August, butterfly lovers are so knackered, all they can do is sit in an armchair and wait for the last butterfly of summer, the brown hairstreak, to descend from an ash tree.
How I became a lepidopterist
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Alois: The big-eyed big-gobbed Rita Tushingham first came to our attention in A Taste of Honey (another Richardson sixties triumph), and then The Knack, with the infinitely watchable Ray Brooks, and a bit part at the beginning and end of Doctor Zhivago.
Hero of the Light Brigade
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He has a real knack for picking projects that are a little off the beaten track, but guaranteed to be interesting.
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Boxes littered the kitchen table, each one packed with knick-knacks and pictures that had been removed from the shelves and walls.
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I can't think of a finer person to have taught me the sport-he was a master technician who had a real knack for dealing with kids.
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Next thing you know, my bathtub drain clogged and, being an unhandy single head of household with a knack for networking with all manner of service pros, I picked up the phone to call my plumber, who'd previously told me never to use Draino on antique pipes in an old house.
Janet Carlson: Popular Mechanics: A Modern Woman's Heartthrob
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He explains that there was a mistake - the vet had just bought the van from the knacker and had not yet painted out the old name.
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He has an uncanny knack of noticing things that seem to have happened yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lord Superior had a particular knack for creating impromptu diddies whenever he had problems with the sound system a spontaneous talent that I can't even imagine our younger artists who lip-sync at concerts and pre-record everything could do.
Jammin' North of the Border: Caribana 2007
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He found work as a freelance consultant for engineering companies and soon discovered he had a knack for it.
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There was an old hair trunk in one corner, and a guitar-box in another, and all sorts of little knickknacks and jimcracks around, like girls brisken up a room with.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Andrew's always had that happy knack of cutting straight to the chase, delighting and upsetting in roughly equal measures.
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I'm knackered already because of a poor night's sleep and there will be little opportunity to catch up during the week.
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For them, skulls, gargoyles, devils, and gothic knickknacks are part of the decoration.
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Lubitsch also had a knack of getting uncharacteristically good performances out of his actors.
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Well, one thing's sure," said Horace Guester. "if it wasn't for knackery Alvin wouldn't be in this blamed fix.
Alvin Journeyman
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For the shoppers, there's the inevitable trip to Hannsi, the giant Venezuelan folk-art emporium of all things knick-knackery.
Love In The Time Of Counterrevolution
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She got splints and set his leg just as knacky, and bandaged it up, and she has tended him like a sick baby ever since.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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Fred LeBlanc, drummer and most visible front man for the New Orleans-based MOR roots-rock barnstormer Cowboy Mouth, has an undeniable knack for muscular, singalong melodies.
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I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
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He didn't even have to use knackery to get away, neither.
Prentice Alvin
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He was stunned at the vast amount of knick-knacks and souvenirs - of value to his mother but to no one else.
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He was stunned at the vast amount of knick-knacks and souvenirs - of value to his mother but to no one else.
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Before he graduated from high school, his hometown became part of Romania—a less hospitable country for Jews—and was known as Cluj.3 The young Kasztner also showed other talents, including a knack for maneuvering himself quickly onto center stage.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
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Dixon is a savvy player with a knack for rushing the quarterback.
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You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand.
The Daily News - News
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Fray discovered he had just as much of a knack for the painting and decorating trade as for car repair.
PROSPECT HILL
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He has an uncanny knack of noticing things that seem to have happened yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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First, she makes for good copy and has a knack for coining catchy phrases ( "death panels") and new words ( "refudiate" -- it's now in the dictionary).
The myth of Palin's frontrunner status
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First, it was the 45 single (for you young pups, that's a smaller vinyl recording played at a faster speed); but as soon as it was released, I went to Get The Knack (that's the LP, dearies).
Boing Boing
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Britain is full of knackered working parents who need childcare centres.
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Somethine eerily familar about this, especially with Mrs. fed-up teminally knackering my Visa – are me and you married to the same woman? on November 16, 2009 at 10: 54 pm Metcountymounty
Killer Free On Shopping Spree « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Shelving installed around the room up near the ceiling is great for keeping stuffed animals, framed photos and knick-knacks up and out of the way.
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By carefully observing the production process, Mr. Juran discovered that one particular worker seemed to have the knack of producing unpitted rings, and set him to training all the others.
Pioneer of Quality Control Kept Searching
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OK, I've typed far too much already, I'm knackered, and I can only hope I've spotted all my typos.
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They're genuinely unspoiled because Canadians have a knack of preserving their heritage that's uncontrived, in spite of the demands placed on the environment by modern tourism.
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He was a young and inexperienced player, but he possessed the priceless knack of putting the team in the right place at the right time.
Times, Sunday Times
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This government has an unhappy knack of slipping on banana skins .
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He claimed that I had a knack for finding materials from among the education, business, and financial journals I was charged with perusing to buttress the arguments he was making for budgetary process married to planning, something a bit wifty and over the top in those days.
I scan 2 photographs from the 1970s.
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It's nicely done up with antique nicknacks but most times everyone is gathered in a rather chaotic kitchen, where you might get a bite to eat - if the wolfhound doesn't grab it off the table first.
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Yet for almost two hours he carried the crowd with genuine charm and a canny knack of making his fans feel like friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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That she would 'never get into certain fashionable parties because she is too old and knacked.'
Fashion: It's deadly serious
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He just has that uncanny knack of knowing where to stand to get his chance and taking it.
The Sun
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Basically, anything above a brisk, short stroll and I'm knackered.
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He just has that uncanny knack of knowing where to stand to get his chance and taking it.
The Sun
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As he said, he has a happy knack of taking wickets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The place was cluttered and cozy, filled with knickknacks and pets: a cageful of ornamental finches whose aimless twittering gave Joanna a whole new insight into the term "birdbrained"; Pella's two fat pugs about whom Joanna, a cat person, privately agreed with the Regent; and, to Joanna's great delight, a five-foot boa constrictor dozing in wintry torpor in a big glass cabinet built into the side of the chimney.
The Silicon Mage
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Hence I am now knackered and about to head off to dreamland.
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This little chilly brat has a knack for getting onto people's nerves.
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Okay, so they seem to only have a knack for the final flourish; and it would be nice if they actually won a series for a change, but I'll take whatever they can muster at this point.
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In 1929 she had the property covered and the dealers, the clothes traders, the second-hand merchants, the knick-knack sellers, the peddlers, were out of the rain, and so were the customers.
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The men's magazine praised Timberlake, 28, for his impact on fashion, his willingness to take risks and "knack for targeting trends" including hats, three-piece suits, skinny ties and beards.
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She has the knack of highlighting many of the cultural forces and influences that so disorder our sexuality as moderns.
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I can live without knick-knacks.
Times, Sunday Times
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She wanted something "reliable, good value and not as embarrassing as my knackered old Nissan Micra".
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I'll be knackered by teatime. I'll need a drink and a nice line or two of charlie.
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One of the owners is Colombian and the Botero prints and other South American knick-knacks all add to its characterful appeal.
10 of the best pensiónes in Barcelona
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Has Arsene been pragmatic/cowardly, or have Milan been cynical in knackering/replacing the turf on the wings according to ITV.
AC Milan 4-0 Arsenal – as it happened | Barry Glendenning
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Meet Dozer's Creator As director of graphics, Karl Gude can diagram any portion of the human anatomy and has a knack for presenting poll datain snazzy ways.
Bylines
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Kelly, who is Bryan's protégée, has this absolutely lovely knack for investing each element of a dish with its own striking acuity, yet the sum is not only harmonious but almost weightless.
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And now I'm back I'm fit for nowt - completely knackered.
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He spoke rather vaguely of contacts with directors of rugby to try to obtain time out for the knackered, now and again.
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As I walked into the room I was overwhelmed by the cacophony of images: statues, chromolithographs, assorted fabrics, crosses, and varied knick-knacks decorated a long, horizontal altar.
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The drink and the drugs have basically knackered my life.
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While the Trumps and Iacoccas of the world prefer to present themselves in garish books with jackets featuring large color photos of their own faces, Buffett, the legendary midwestern cheapskate with a knack for discovering hidden value in cookware clubs (The Pampered Chef) and encyclopedia publishers (World Book), has reclaimed a form of junk mail for his collected works.
American Everyman
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As usual, the Solo knack for improvisation left much to be desired.
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Every Wednesday hundreds of people go to the market to buy flowers, vegetables and knick-knacks.
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David Cameron even spent a knackering night deferring to the proletariat, telling workers at Morrisons that they worked all night so he thought he should too (yes, Dave, but they don't work in the day as well) and handling halibut at Grimsby fish market, which had the unfortunate effect of highlighting the resemblance between the fish's thin lips, and cold, dead eyes, and his own.
Christina Patterson: Thanks to the politicians, we're all 'hard-working' now
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Stopping penalties is a happy knack in his career.
Times, Sunday Times
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She kept what she called a bookseller's shop as well as the post-office; but the supply of books corresponded exactly to the lack of demand for them, and her chief trade was in nicknacks, from marbles and money-boxes up to concertinas.
Auld Licht Idylls
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When a new item comes down a cashier's belt, something especially good, a cute pair of shoes or a knick-knack for the kitchen, they call out to each other.
Check-out at the super saver center
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But my battery was knackered, and in the weak, red glow of the rear lights I couldn't really see anything properly.
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There's a knack in / to locking this door which takes a while to master.
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It was during that festival that she teamed up with the great bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie - pictured here, looking knackered but resplendent in his newly acquired tartan trousers - at the Central Hotel.
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And was this treemanangel on his soredbohmend because Knockout, the knickknaver, knacked him in the knechtschaft? —
Finnegans Wake
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You can see it, though, can't you: there's nothing so pathetic and washed up as a really knackered old shoe.
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It outguessed my every manoeuvre on the sandy bottom, and I ended the dive knackered, without one image of its huge iridescent blue pectoral fins splayed like a splendid fan to show for my efforts.
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She has the happy knack of making the most mundane report appear interesting.
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With manic energy and a knack for voices, Bennett's performance is outstanding.
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This government has an unhappy knack of slipping on banana skins .
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Seabiscuit was a stumpy nag that looked set for the knackery until it was teamed with one-eyed jockey-cum-boxer Red Pollard.
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Some return from a foreign jaunt empowered by the thought that they have picked up the knack.
Times, Sunday Times
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She loved her sister dearly and always would, but sometimes Staicie had the infuriating knack of being able to effortlessly exasperate a saint.
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When I work a 12 hour day, without a break, like today, the last thing I want to find at the end of it is that my bloody phone handset is knackered.
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Lions, taken down from the brewery roof and destined for the knackers' yard, or an architectural salvage shed run by Bermondsey wide boys, were saved by the personal intervention of King George VI.
The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
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They diversified by opening a shop in York called Bazilia, specialising in South American and African knick-knacks.
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It seems that marathons have an uncanny knack of being run on the hottest days of the year.
Great Sporting Failures
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A quarter keep coins for luck and around one in ten put their trust in a toy or knick-knack.
The Sun
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Her horse was a show jumper whom the family rescued from the knacker's yard.
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He has the knack of sharing information in a readable and entertaining way, so that the subject does not seem too technical and boring.
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All the little checks and things that you do in a society where you're judged by the way you look – that's just knackering.
The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran
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I couldn't help but display my knack of scanning a rack of women's clothes and picking out the exact, perfect combo for her to try.
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The league has the happy knack of throwing them up so this is as a good a match as any to opt for one.
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He has that knack of playing well every game and always looks like scoring a goal if not two.
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You have a knack for being unusual Andy; I don't think some frou-frou lessons that teach you how to chill a salad fork will change that.
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It seems that marathons have an uncanny knack of being run on the hottest days of the year.
Great Sporting Failures
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Knackered already, one tarted oneself up and headed off to Blackheath to meet Chris and his girlfriend.
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Besides, too many knickknacks are more shabby than chic.
Globe and Mail
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In fact, we still have three tea-chests-full of furniture and knick-knacks sitting in the half-furnished family room.
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The skilful acting reaches beyond words, and it's a unique opportunity to appreciate one of the main assets of francophone theatre: its knack for emotion.
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Felt bloody awful when I finished - too knackered to feel properly pleased!
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‘In the Fall’ tells of an old horse being sold to the knacker by a family who lack the means to feed it through another winter and who need the pittance it will bring.
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Fueled by my sister's incessant shopping, every surface sags under the weight of knick-knacks and geegaws.
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I was absolutely knackered at the end of the match.
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After college, Karpyk discovered he enjoyed working with kids and had a knack for distilling chemistry concepts from activities such as shrink-wrapping students and exploding soap bubbles.
USATODAY.com - All wrapped up in knowledge
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She has the happy knack of making the most mundane report appear interesting.
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They lugged in the shelves, all the knick knacks and doodads, and started setting up.
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I'm too knackered to type more, as I haven't had any decent sleep for 72 hours.
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He has the great comic's knack for joining two unconnected thoughts and making the jump feel not just natural but also necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was not the usual forgetfulness that comes with moving house; no chair forgotten, no scraps of paper overlooked, no pins or knick-knacks left abandoned behind a chest of drawers.
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My dad is the type of guy who'll only sing at Christmas, but he has a knack for getting out his harmonica at unexpected moments.
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To say that he has a knack for being at the right place at the right time would be an understatement.
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It was a glass table, with corners sharp enough to blunt a diamond, covered in every breakable variety of knickknack known to man.
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The teaching job really knackered my confidence.
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This was a really great day's walking, I'm knackered now, I've done about 19 miles.
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A Belgian - horn chemist - entrepreneur, Baekeland had a knack for spotting profitable opportunities.
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Britain in particular has a knack for capturing such moments.
Times, Sunday Times
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The little front parlour, which is the old lady's ordinary sitting-room, is a perfect picture of quiet neatness; the carpet is covered with brown Holland, the glass and picture-frames are carefully enveloped in yellow muslin; the table-covers are never taken off, except when the leaves are turpentined and bees '- waxed, an operation which is regularly commenced every other morning at half-past nine o'clock -- and the little nicknacks are always arranged in precisely the same manner.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
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Name in club folklore thanks to his happy knack of scoring vital goals in the run-in.
The Sun
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However, it's also difficult and time-consuming, and it takes a special knack which few scientists have.
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Anybody too knackered to lift a cup of tea to parched lips can have it intravenously.
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He commands his area well and has a knack of pulling off spectacular saves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her room is overflowing with tiaras, troll dolls, magical cards, toy castles, posters, crowns, swords, and all manner of fantasy knick-knacks.
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The problem was that we were knackered by the time Saturday came round.
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Let them buy their bucolic knick-knacks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even her colleagues think she has some brass knackers.
TV review: 24 Hours in A&E; The Kids are Alright
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Her horse was a show jumper whom the family rescued from the knacker's yard.
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The series demonstrated once again that Ferguson has an uncanny knack for turning controversy into lucre.
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After you've gotten the knack of making a simply topiary shape, you can try more elaborate shapes, such as animals and giant birds.
