Example sentences of "to knock out " in BNC.
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| 1 | That approach would seek to knock out a keystone of Civil Service tradition . |
| 2 | AFTER four days of sparring , Eric Vanderaerden unleashed his Sunday punch to knock out the fading hopes of Sean Kelly , and the whole of Ireland , in the Nissan Classic , which finished in Dublin yesterday after five days and 925km . |
| 3 | View from City Road : AMP tries to knock out Pearl |
| 4 | The allies ' biggest visible flop at the outset of this war has been the failure to knock out the launchers of Iraq 's Scud missiles . |
| 5 | Second , that no side had ‘ first-strike capability ’ , that is , the ability to knock out the other side completely in a surprise attack . |
| 6 | After a time , when there was still no sign of Miss Harker , she relaxed sufficiently to knock out her extinct pipe against her boot and enquire of Biff as to whether he wanted to sit beside her . |
| 7 | The object is to win — and the way to achieve this is to knock out the opponent . |
| 8 | ‘ The tendency in modern arable farming to knock out field boundaries and devote fewer fields to grass seems to be largely responsible for the decline in hares , ’ Tapper says . |
| 9 | I do n't suppose Mehra can possibly have had time to knock out some SF on the side , but I am deeply curious to know which great scientist lurks behind the mask of ‘ Robert Anton Wilson ’ . |
| 10 | For most tumours , however , the genetic blueprint is normal , and two events are therefore required to knock out both copies of the relevant gene before a tumour arises , which is why they are so rare . |
| 11 | Swapping to the JD Tele means leaping swiftly across the room to knock out the amp 's treble boost . |
| 12 | A man who mixes a cocktail of vitamins and sleeping pills to knock out Little Liz 's predecessor after she had gone off her oats and then crawls around under the bedclothes with a speculum and a flashlight . |
| 13 | In the same quarter-finals that witnessed Biarritz 's act of drop-goal escapism against Bayonne , Toulon managed — with the scores tied at 30-all after 110 minutes of play — to knock out Tarbes on the try-count . |
| 14 | The air raids on London and Liverpool and Birmingham and Clydeside were to knock out communications and close roads and railways and make everybody so pig-sick that they 'd welcome Hitler with open arms . |
| 15 | ANDY HOLLIGAN produced an Aintree iron of a left-hook to knock out Manchester 's Tony Ekubia in 31 seconds of the seventh round at the Everton Sports Centre last night . |
| 16 | DAVEY HAS TO KNOCK OUT HIS WIFE 'S BROTHER |
| 17 | An ice-screw at 5m then go for the top , taking care not to knock out any ice onto those waiting below . |
| 18 | Broomhead had managed partly to knock out the large dent in the horn but he had taken off a fair amount of paint in the process . |
| 19 | It 's that game where you make a grid on a sheet of graph paper and each player has one battleship ( four squares ) , two cruisers ( three squares ) , three destroyers ( two squares ) and so on , then you have to knock out the opponent 's fleet . |
| 20 | Never again , because in sheer economic terms it is lunacy to spend upwards of £80 million to knock out a war machine that actually only provided some £20 billion of contracts for western industry . |
| 21 | General Giap realised that his best course was to knock out the French before American aid increased decisively . |
| 22 | I has taken me a while to figure out that ‘ we ai n't got Windows , we got DOS ’ so I would appreciate any advice in your columns on the basics — what sorts of programs are suitable for a simple soul like me who needs to knock out the odd poster , magazine or newsletter and something that will look more professional , from time to time . |
| 23 | Lucker lurches forward with enough force to knock out his teeth , what there is left of them . |
| 24 | Not only do you have to find it , but you may have to knock out the retaining plug . |
| 25 | However with Scott supporting him and the stable having hit form he should be able to knock out the odd winner or two in the coming weeks . |
| 26 | If she then plays 3 rounds of Spades trumping in dummy and proceeds to knock out the Ace of Clubs , East can simply hold off to the third round and then lead a Diamond . |
| 27 | When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas … |
| 28 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 29 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 30 | EVANDER HOLYFIELD 'S mighty £17.5m asking price for a London defence of his world heavyweight title is virtually certain to knock out Lennox Lewis 's hopes of home advantage in next spring 's challenge . |