Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] knock [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I do n't know how many breweries or pubs were knocked down during the redevelopment of Docklands . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |