Example sentences of "[be] knock [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Dealing Team , who has been knocking on the door at Hackney , should prove too strong for her rivals on Tuesday 's BAGS card . |
2 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
3 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
4 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
5 | Abso , absolutely , you see because if you take — last year we had er one of our winners er a lady called Liz Harris , who 's been knocking on the door and trying to get established as a writer for years and years and years . |
6 | We 've been knocking at the door in four defeats . |
7 | But Germany and Japan , as well as several other not-so-rich but big countries , are knocking on the door . |
8 | We are knocking on the door of the League and I said to him : ‘ Why not do a Barnet here ? ’ ’ |
9 | They have claimed the shirts and while there might be those who are knocking on the door , because those who are in are producing the goods , it means they are keeping the door tightly shut at the moment . ’ |
10 | Hoddle kicked off by telling Swindon he wanted to leave … he wanted a bigger club … next thing Chelsea are knocking at the door for both Hoddle and John Gorman … they both resigned … |
11 | You wo n't be happy until we 're knocking on the workhouse door . ’ |
12 | If you 're going to , if you 're going to be knocked for something , make sure you 're knocked for the right thing , that 's what you 're really saying . |
13 | It seemed for the barest fraction of an instant that a smile might be knocking at the underside of that granite jaw . |
14 | They would n't be knocking at the door tonight , nor any other night so long as she was careful . |
15 | The youthful trio of Scott Booth , Duncan Ferguson and Stephen Wright are all acknowledged , meanwhile , to be knocking at the door of opportunity with a greater urgency than most — apart from the indisposed Eoin Jess . |
16 | But be warned : if you own more than one sign , PC Plod could be knocking on the door with a warrant one day . |
17 | But she must ask ; beg even , or he 'd be knocking on the kitchen door at Jarman House , asking the Lord knew what favours . |
18 | He said : ‘ I hope that as long as my form for Liverpool improves I will be knocking on the door . |
19 | ‘ That will depend on my performances and I hope that as long as my form for Liverpool improves I will be knocking on the door . |
20 | Although the first law of kung fu fighting states that you should , if possible , always keep two feet on the ground , circumstances arise in which a student may slip and fall to the floor , or fail to stop a strike and be knocked to the ground as a result . |
21 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |
22 | On 1 June 1878 the nineteen-year-old George wrote down his thoughts on how some ten yards a lap ( 5.7 seconds of the total time ) could be knocked off the then world standard . |
23 | The 21-year-old has been videoed putting a steel-capped boot into men who have been knocked to the ground . |
24 | This kick is especially useful when a fighter has been knocked to the ground and his opponent is closing in for the kill , although in training it is learned from a standing position . |
25 | In an instant the coldness of her fury evaporated and her heart was flooded with a tide of raw emotions — excitement , confusion and a desperate yearning that tore at her insides and left her breathless , as though she had been knocked to the ground and run over by a steam train . |
26 | Mind , I do n't say that she has n't been knocked about a bit … |
27 | TMD Carat and BMP DDB Needham have been knocked off the list . |
28 | Specifically , about 1 lb has been knocked off the weight of the new model , to make it around 4 lbs , it has a 25MHz IBM 486SLC processor . |
29 | A coffee cup had been knocked off the arm of Fernie 's chair , but there was n't much left in it and the stain would be easily removable . |
30 | ‘ Well , I do n't know what we 're going to do about that , ’ he said and sucked his teeth and shook his grey head and expressed dismay that a leg had been knocked off the chair . |