Example sentences of "knock over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Give it back you thief , ’ he bawls after me , but I spurt ahead , knocking over a coupla kids who start bawling and bellyaching as well , but I do n't stop to investigate , because after all , I 'm doing them a favour , the sooner they learn that life is full of hard knocks the better . |
| 2 | DRIVER Ian Sharpe reported knocking over a girl and was told by police : ‘ That 's a ghoul . ’ |
| 3 | He had obviously told the servants that he had accidentally set fire to his room by knocking over a lighted candle . |
| 4 | It was essential to be able to put a hand out for something in the dark without knocking over a jug of water , or sending a pee-bottle flying . |
| 5 | ‘ Why ? ’ said Albert , knocking over a toothglass of Kirsch with his other boot as he tried to scrape the gelantine off the left heel with his right toe . |
| 6 | a bus knocking over a girl |
| 7 | knocking over a Queen — and all things marry . |
| 8 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 9 | Endill tried to sit up to get a better look but as he did so , knocked over a book and it thumped onto the shelf . |
| 10 | With United heading for an embarrassing goal-less draw , the manager 's son Darren knocked over a free-kick which was headed on by McClair for the unmarked Dublin to shoot past Tim Flowers from six yards . |
| 11 | She knocked over a cup in her haste to defuse this touchy situation . |
| 12 | Christopher , making a grab for the money , lunged and fell into George who fell into the coffee table and knocked over a vase of daisies , drenching the sofa , the carpet and a large part of Mrs Morrison . |
| 13 | I knocked over a candle . ’ |
| 14 | The only confirmed death so far is a 16-year-old boy who burned to death after he knocked over a candle . |
| 15 | The sort of gesture that might , reasonably , allow a chap to knock over a bottle of wine and make sure at least half of it got all over Donald 's plate . |
| 16 | The energy generated by such an attack is sufficient to knock over a domestic or wild buffalo weighing a ton ( 1 tonne ) . |
| 17 | These it uses to stun its prey and the discharge is so powerful that it is quite sufficient to knock over a horse standing in the shallows . |
| 18 | Above him , the ward 's Christmas decorations looped in colours of green , red , silver , gold and white , and his elbow threatened to knock over a small ornamental tree hung with miniature packages . |
| 19 | He had now knocked over a bottle of gentian violet . |