Example sentences of "[be] knock [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you 're knocked down by a bus , that does n't count . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It would be a disaster if Mr Museveni were to be knocked down by the proverbial bus . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 12 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 13 | ‘ There were coal-effect gas fires in the living-rooms ; the bathroom was covered in cork tiles , floor to ceiling ; the kitchen had been knocked through into a disastrous tunnel lined with Melamine ; and the roof had been re-tiled in the most revolting red pantiles instead of black slates . |
| 14 | It 's been knocked up in a shed in the back garden of John Ward 's home at Highan Serrers in Northamptonshire . |
| 15 | Only a few days earlier England had been knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany . |
| 16 | By 1926 , the stuffing had been knocked out of the mattress business and the factory closed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | An official inquiry by the Pakistan military and US army experts determined that sabotage had caused the crash and that Zia 's pilots had been knocked out by a poisonous gas . |
| 19 | I said I had been knocked out by a shell-blast . |
| 20 | He also remembered the look of the adjustable spanner , and it seemed to him appropriate that having been knocked down with a spanner his whole body was now apparently being alternately wrenched and tightened . |
| 21 | I think I must have been knocked down by a car . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Are you all right ? ’ they asked , like people do when somebody 's been knocked down by a bus and lying stretched out in the road . |
| 23 | Someone came to tell her that her twelve-year-old son Paul had been knocked down by a car on the way home from a friend 's house and taken to the local hospital . |
| 24 | Two traffic wardens have been knocked down by a car after questioning the driver about a photocopied tax disc . |
| 25 | He said that he had been knocked down by the labour master ( who was present ) . |
| 26 | But their bid has been knocked back by the Government which claimed their independent valuation was only about half the real value . |
| 27 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 28 | It 'll 'ave to be good , so do n't come up with something like us all bein' knocked down by a herd of stampedin' giraffes . ’ |
| 29 | An eight-year-old boy spent the weekend recovering after being knocked over by a car on Hollyhurst Road , Darlington . |
| 30 | The sense of great loyalty is apparent , and the waste of life as if the knights dying ‘ man by man ’ are dominoes being knocked over in a long line . |