Example sentences of "[been] knock [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | It 's been knocked up in a shed in the back garden of John Ward 's home at Highan Serrers in Northamptonshire . |
| 6 | Only a few days earlier England had been knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany . |
| 7 | By 1926 , the stuffing had been knocked out of the mattress business and the factory closed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I said I had been knocked out by a shell-blast . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I think I must have been knocked down by a car . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Two traffic wardens have been knocked down by a car after questioning the driver about a photocopied tax disc . |
| 16 | He said that he had been knocked down by the labour master ( who was present ) . |
| 17 | But their bid has been knocked back by the Government which claimed their independent valuation was only about half the real value . |