He also spent the last week attending two funerals for people he knew who died in New Orleans.
Finally I asked him, why he bought the car with low mileage when he knew he was going to use that for his long commute and when he knew cost was a constraint for him.
Yet, almost against Mr May's better judgment, a sketchy profile of Grey's slightly unpleasant character emerges from these pages along with the suggestion that, by setting off over ocean or desert in search of his colourful and often improbable plots, he provided an example of adventurous derring-do that appealed irresistibly to the urban plumbers and mechanics for whom he knew he was writing.
This summer he looked for opportunities that he knew would be both rewarding and fun!
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He looked for steamship captains he knew, shoved money into their hands, saying "go north and get lumber".
One suspicion is that Alan Greenspan, who had to retire in January 2006, did not want to take the blame for what he knew would happen if he reined the housing market in so he left it to his successor.
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When he examined the timings of his vehicle travelling over the road speed markings, he knew for certain he had not been driving too fast.
Now Schilling is being sued with the charge that he knew that Kingdoms would fail and he was purposefully asking for more money which he knew could never turn the game or company around.
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The only thing he knew for certain, he says, was that everything was about to change.
Glyn Davies, Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire, said he knew Mr Rowlands for 37 years, having sat on MDC with him in the 1970s and 80s.
When Bill Clinton ran for President, he knew Gennifer Flowers would appear, and he was ready with a plan of action.
When the congressman blithely denied that he was a Muslim Brother or, for that matter, that he even knew very much about the Brotherhood, well, that was good enough for crack investigative journalist Anderson Cooper.
What he used the credit reports for was to make sure he knew about each of their open accounts.
At college, he played piano for ballet classes for extra money, and he knew what she was talking about, the hardness of the dancers.
It was like an ah-ha moment for me but he already knew where my head was.
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When he joined Google in 2007, Berndt thought he knew what he was in for.
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Born and raised in west London, Bellfield, 43, prowled for victims on streets he knew intimately.
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His government gave them temporary documents and watched them head for France, as he knew they would.
Hence his name entered the argot as an ironic appellation for anyone who thought he knew but didn't.
He knew for certain that her purpose had not been to harm the tiger, that she had smiled knowingly at him when it became obvious that the tiger had escaped.
Surrey captain Butcher, who played 71 Tests for England, said he knew of a rift as far back as Pietersen's appointment as captain and with an Ashes summer ahead he believes tough decisions need to be made.
He said he knew he could no longer care for his creations if they stayed at home with him, but he felt lonely without them.
"Abu Ismael may be charged for forgery in official documents as he knowingly knew that the Egyptian law bans him from running for president if his mother holds a dual Egyptian-American citizenship, " lawyer Khaled Abu Bakr said.
The most perplexing part is why the coaches want to honor a man who resigned in disgrace after sitting on information he knew regarding a trinkets-for-tattoos scandal, and who as time passes is found to be more casual (with the school turning a blind eye) about NCAA rules than we knew, even as he stepped down in May for being so casual about NCAA rules.
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Bastiat has been dead for 155 years, but he knew all about multipliers.
Here lies Abdoulaye Wade, he fought for democracy and knew when to step down before being disgraced at Senegal's polls.
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The joke afterwards was a college professor who said he could not see how Nixon won since everybody he knew voted for McGovern.
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