Example sentences of "knock [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 2 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 3 | With most other lines of communication knocked out by the civil war , Porua 's La Clava played an important role in informing that isolated community . |
| 4 | American Danny Sullivan went on to win a race which also saw Emerson Fittipaldi , of Brazil , who shared the front row with Mansell , knocked out in a separate accident . |
| 5 | In the Plate final — for teams knocked out in the first round of the Chairman 's Cup — Fife beat Perth 4–2 . |
| 6 | Like John , Alan Wardle was knocked down as a small child . |
| 7 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 8 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , while working at Southall in 1936 , both were knocked down by a private car and seriously injured . |
| 10 | A woman ran from one of the houses on the northern bank and was almost knocked down by a clattering troop of Dragoons . |
| 11 | It would be a disaster if Mr Museveni were to be knocked down by the proverbial bus . |
| 12 | Swinburn was knocked down in a late night incident in Newmarket a month ago — and rates himself lucky to be riding again at all . |
| 13 | If you try to speak to any body you will be ignored , if you get in the way you 'll be knocked down in the wild scramble to get goods away to Paris , London , Brussels , and all the great centres of northern and eastern France . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I have never had much stomach for fighting and I certainly did not relish the prospect of having my head knocked off for a few cigarettes ! |
| 19 | The horseshoe ridge that Ben Lawers dominates can be knocked off in a single day if you have legs of iron , but for a more leisurely exploration of the hills , Glen Lyon is where to pick off Meall a' Choire Leith , Meall Garbh , and the more distant Meall Greigh that turns the horseshoe into an S-shape . |
| 20 | Indeed , neither team was to prove a serious contender for the title with Jay Sigel , who played in the singles match against Jim Milligan , going the furthest — being knocked out at the 19th in the quarter-finals . |
| 21 | They were knocked out of the Anglo-Italian Cup by Portsmouth , who beat them two-nil at the Manor . |
| 22 | If I remember rightly , it all started going wrong with Cantona and Leeds after we got knocked out of the European Cup . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough football club is knocked out of the first round of the War Cup by Bradford . |
| 24 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
| 25 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
| 26 | Middlesbrough are away to Birkenhead on Saturday in the ASA 's Plate competition for teams knocked out of the national club senior championship . |
| 27 | If I had to choose one man to kick a 40-yard penalty from close to the touchline to rescue The Earth from being knocked out of the Inter-Galactic Cup in the last minute , Grant Fox would be the man … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That was apparently the case in Cleveland last week when an officer was knocked out by a concrete chunk thrown through a windscreen . |
| 30 | 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 . |