Example sentences of "be knocked [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Only a few days earlier England had been knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany . |
3 | By 1926 , the stuffing had been knocked out of the mattress business and the factory closed . |
4 | Having been knocked out of the Tennents Scottish Cup by the Rugby Park side and after failing to beat them in three previous league meetings , there was a distinct edge to Raith 's play on Saturday . |
5 | Predictably , though , there was little resemblence between this defeated Liverpool side and the one that came so close to being knocked out of the FA Cup in the semi-final against Portsmouth at Highbury . |
6 | Speed has endured a miserable November , with Leeds being knocked out of the European and Coca-Cola Cups , and Wales crashing to Belgium in Wednesday 's World Cup qualifying tie . |
7 | If I had to choose one man to kick a 40-yard penalty from close to the touchline to rescue The Earth from being knocked out of the Inter-Galactic Cup in the last minute , Grant Fox would be the man … |
8 | Susan heard them being knocked out of the skies . |
9 | This championship game might have been a dress rehearsal for the League Cup final ; instead it 's a battle of the moody blues with both Ards and Linfield licking the wounds after being knocked out of the competition . |
10 | In his last 16 games as manager , Macari 's West Ham won only three matches and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Fourth Division Torquay . |
11 | However , during that poor run which ultimately cost them the title , they were knocked out of the FA Cup by lowly Wrexham , and that must act as a warning in neon lights for their trip to non-League Yeovil . |
12 | Castle , 28 , who is quitting full-time tennis , was even more gloomy about the future of the British game after a disastrous year when the men were knocked out of the Davis Cup 's elite group and the women were similarly relegated in the Federation Cup . |
13 | DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals . |
14 | They were knocked out of the Anglo-Italian Cup by Portsmouth , who beat them two-nil at the Manor . |
15 | Whitby were knocked out of the Yorkshire Shield 7–4 by the visitors to their heavy pitch , Wibsey ( Bradford ) , while Knaresborough plunged to the heaviest defeat in the club 's nine-year history when they went down 57–0 to the newly-formed Hull and ER club . |
16 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
17 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
18 | Middlesbrough football club is knocked out of the first round of the War Cup by Bradford . |
19 | ANDRE AGASSI , the second seed , was knocked out of the Hong Kong Open in the first round yesterday by Haiti 's Ronald Agenor . |
20 | Eric Bristow was knocked out of the British Darts Open in London last night by Charlie Holdaway , a 28-year-old furniture assembler from Isleworth , Middlesex . |
21 | One contestant was knocked out of the ring and into the orchestra pit , landing in the mouth of the big bass horn and unable to extricate himself before the count of 10 . |
22 | But former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan was knocked out of the event with a blown engine on his Vauxhall Nova . |
23 | But the news was kept from Boris , 24 , before he was knocked out of the US Open championship , it said . |