Example sentences of "[be] knock [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been knocking around since Christmas . |
| 2 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 4 | And after you rode them five , so many , twenty , I think it 's twenty , and then er er you 're knocked down to three . |
| 5 | So if you 're knocked down by a bus , that does n't count . |
| 6 | ‘ Better hurry , or they 'll soon be knocking off for lunch . ’ |
| 7 | communication yes , so that we used to have the difficulty , and we used to rely on the odd person , railway people , drivers and their guards , they used to be knocked up during the night for early duty , by call boys , we used to make use of them if we wanted a message sent anywhere . |
| 8 | At a domestic level , fire can be prevented by maintaining equipment in a safe working condition , for example repairing frayed flexes , avoiding trailing flexes , ensuring that electrical circuits are not overloaded , having fires adequately guarded , and using self-extinguishing devices for movable articles which can be knocked over with relative ease such as oil lamps and oil-heaters . |
| 9 | They rose from the table with Daisy stressing the need for a heater that could not be knocked over by cats . |
| 10 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 11 | The Marsham Street development has been adjudged too brutal for the London landscape and will be knocked down to be replaced by a single six-storey scheme . |
| 12 | Shirts that left Comme des Garçons with a one-hundred-pound price tag will be knocked down for a bargain price ; and a man 's shirt that looks good on a woman will cost more than the men-only variety . |
| 13 | It does not assume any proof demonstrating its validity , and therefore it can not be knocked down for not offering it . |
| 14 | Now the arcade will be knocked down with sheltered homes for the elderly built on the site . |
| 15 | In this sense , pluralism has for some become something of an Aunt Sally , to be knocked down through juxtaposing the idealised equal distribution of power assumed in pluralist theory with the actual inequalities in the distribution of power found in Western liberal democracies . |
| 16 | It would be a disaster if Mr Museveni were to be knocked down by the proverbial bus . |
| 17 | If you try to speak to any body you will be ignored , if you get in the way you 'll be knocked down in the wild scramble to get goods away to Paris , London , Brussels , and all the great centres of northern and eastern France . |
| 18 | He could be knocked back on his heels , but never for long . |
| 19 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 20 | The horseshoe ridge that Ben Lawers dominates can be knocked off in a single day if you have legs of iron , but for a more leisurely exploration of the hills , Glen Lyon is where to pick off Meall a' Choire Leith , Meall Garbh , and the more distant Meall Greigh that turns the horseshoe into an S-shape . |
| 21 | Having raced into a 14-point interval lead , thanks to two tries from Tony Swift , another from Richard Lee and a Jonathan Callard conversion , they nearly allowed themselves to be knocked out of their stride by Neath 's bludgeoning approach . |
| 22 | I knew if I cut the anchor rope at the wrong moment , the Hispaniola would make a sudden move out to sea , and my boat might be knocked out of the water . |
| 23 | I 'm going to be knocked out for not staring as well . |
| 24 | I 'm sure they thought I 'd be knocked out for ages and not come round until they 'd gone . |
| 25 | Their air-strike capability would be knocked out for years . |
| 26 | Mr Kennedy said that no deal had been done with the Government other than on an understanding that today 's scheduled business should not be knocked out by allowing yesterday 's session to continue beyond lunchtime today . |
| 27 | HOPES of home advantage for Lennox Lewis when he fights Evander Holyfield for the world heavyweight crown is almost certain to be knocked out by the American 's £17.5m asking price for a London bout . |
| 28 | Similarly , he saw that Bastin should move to outside-from inside-left because there was less danger that the youngster would be knocked about on the wing . |
| 29 | ‘ One moment he 's on cloud nine , and now when I tell him all that 's gone on he 'll feel as though he 's been knocked over by a juggernaut . |
| 30 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |