Example sentences of "[noun] [be] knock [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough football club is knocked out of the first round of the War Cup by Bradford . |
| 4 | Swinburn was knocked down in a late night incident in Newmarket a month ago — and rates himself lucky to be riding again at all . |
| 5 | John Fillon-Payoux was knocked down by a car . |
| 6 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |
| 7 | I do n't know how many breweries or pubs were knocked down during the redevelopment of Docklands . |
| 8 | After this the heifer was knocked down to the plaintiff . |
| 9 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 10 | The following techniques are outlawed under s3 : restricting the right to bid to more than one article ; goods being knocked down for a price less than the highest bid ; or where there are " free " gifts . |
| 11 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 12 | But former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan was knocked out of the event with a blown engine on his Vauxhall Nova . |
| 13 | Crowd violence towards players is another area of concern after the FA ordered a replay of the Cup tie between Peterborough and Kingstonian when the visitors ' keeper was knocked out by a coin thrown from behind his goal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Once more Daisy was knocked out by the fecundity of everything , the blackthorn purple with sloes , plump hazel nuts already shredded by squirrels , elderberries shiny as caviar hanging like shower fittings from their crimson stems . |
| 16 | A fortnight before Anna and Peter were married , Anna 's father was knocked down in the Fulham Road at two in the morning by a van driving without headlights . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The situation was brought to a head last year when a woman was knocked over by a bus in Prebend Row . |
| 19 | It was flung open , and she side-stepped hastily , only just avoiding being knocked down by a very annoyed Roman . |
| 20 | Like John , Alan Wardle was knocked down as a small child . |
| 21 | The musicians were knocked over like a row of skittles and all came to rest higgledy-piggledy as they were stopped in their tracks by a magnificent horse chestnut tree . |
| 22 | The entire ‘ BRIDGES ’ section fell on top of a bunch of frantic pupils and Tock and his protective case were knocked over in the confusion . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 25 | 4 years ago , Jeremy De Bage was knocked down by a motorcyclist . |
| 26 | ROCK heart-throb Michael Hutchence was knocked down by a taxi as he left a Dutch nightclub . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That was apparently the case in Cleveland last week when an officer was knocked out by a concrete chunk thrown through a windscreen . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Their rink was knocked out in the semi-final . |