However, Ipswich appear to be leading the chase, their manager, Roy Keane, knowing McManus from his own short spell as a player at Celtic Park.

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He leapt from achievement to achievement, reaching ever higher, knowing his time was short.

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King had admitted concealing criminal property, knowing or believing it was his benefit from criminal conduct, and three charges of misconduct in a public office, at a previous hearing.

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William Small, father of the dead man, said Monday that he was sorry one person died from his son's organs, but he took comfort knowing that others were still alive.

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Afterwards, knowing that his invention both froze and could be whipped from frozen to three or four times its volume in minutes, he began to sell it everywhere.

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Intimate stuff from the Swede, who goes into this week's World Cup knowing his reign as England coach will soon come to an end after five-and-a-half years.

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If LeBron James leads the way to a championship, Dwayne Wade certainly benefits from that as well knowing that he did what he needed to do to help his team win.

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Soon after assembling his new gang of direct reports Dell decided it was time to hear from the public, knowing that he would get an earful.

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The Carlton boss's coup in snatching the licence for London weekday television from under the nose of Thames TV boss Richard Dunn, was largely down to his knack of knowing just how to pitch a deal.

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