Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] knock [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | John Fillon-Payoux was knocked down by a car . |
2 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |
3 | But former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan was knocked out of the event with a blown engine on his Vauxhall Nova . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Like John , Alan Wardle was knocked down as a small child . |
8 | 4 years ago , Jeremy De Bage was knocked down by a motorcyclist . |
9 | ROCK heart-throb Michael Hutchence was knocked down by a taxi as he left a Dutch nightclub . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |