How To Use Knock down In A Sentence
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If they decide to knock down perfectly decent houses, that's their decision - they have to be answerable for that.
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We're all fighting to knock down stereotypical images of older men and women that cause more damage than good in society.
Times, Sunday Times
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We'll have more space if we knock down the adjoining wall .
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Trying to knock down the bedroom door with the skillet, I was able to see another door opening across the hall.
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You persuaded me to give up that silly drink they call sherry, and drink ale; and what was it but drinking ale which gave me courage to knock down that fellow
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'
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He wanted to knock down a bank.
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Villagers south of York are fighting plans to knock down a derelict health centre and build three new houses in its stead.
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It is assumed that the ancient players had become so expert that they could always knock down any single kayle-pin, or any two kayle-pins that stood close together.
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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B efore Soros, Helmut Kohl used the deutsche mark to breach the Berlin Wall–a wall that no one had ever been able to knock down using artillery shells.
Those “self-executing rules”
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Throwing strikes is great because you knock down all 10 pins and don't have to shoot a spare.
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For example, during Reiko's struggle for sexual liberation, the mysterious stranger indeed helps knock down the walls of her repression and reawakens her own desires, which takes about half an hour of film time.
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Reid was very close to doubling the lead in the dying moments when he hit a fierce shot following a Whatmore knock down.
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It took a whole day of hard effort to knock down the wall.
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But when you show me children, it is easier for me to believe the horrors if I also see them playing Knock Down Ginger, or conkers, or whatever.
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Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of rhetoric.
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So the martial arts are a great way to dish out a bit of punishment, with a heavy hand if required, but the spiritual dimension to the sport is inseparable from the principal aim of the fight: to knock down your opponent.
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A Cadishead builder may have to knock down seven luxury homes because they were built over a disused footpath.
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How much can you knock down a year?
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We had for food the crusts and fragments of bread and meat which we had each managed to secrete from the native Prince's table, and once or twice we had some game which the gentlemen managed to knock down or snare, but the danger of lighting
A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
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Remember that the second kayle-pin must be removed before you begin to play, and that if you knock down two at once those two must be close together, because in the real game the ball could not do more than this.
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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Therefore, in playing our table-game, all you have to do is to knock down with your fingers, or take away, any single kayle-pin or two adjoining kayle-pins, playing alternately until one of the two players makes the last capture, and so wins.
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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It is not wise to allow the "deadbeat" -- the remittance man, the gaunt shepherd with his starving flocks and herds, the free selector on an arid patch, the drink shanty where the rouseabouts and shearers knock down their cheques, the race meeting where high and low, rich and poor, are filled with the gambler's ill luck -- fill the foreground of the picture of Australian life.
An Autobiography
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Knock down the machine before shipping.
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It took a whole day of hard effort to knock down the wall.
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The object is to clear opponents out of the way while you knock down two of their duckpins that sit at the far end of the court.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
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She does not want to knock down his self - esteem .
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The city is going to knock down this building and gentrify the neighborhood.
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Throughout the ages, they have served as an offensive weapon to knock down fortifications, an accentuation in pieces of classical music, and a rudimentary yet entertaining transport for clowns.
Archive 2008-08-01
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The aim in bowling is to knock down all the pins with one or two bowls.
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That is what happens when you buy bent goods off a crook for a knock down price.
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Knock down the machine before shipping.
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But now there are plans to knock down the 1960s building and put three blocks of flats in its place.
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No matter how bad I threw the ball, it was still going to knock down at least one pin.
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This contraption would knock down most of the mallee which would later be burned.
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They are testing combination drugs which will knock down bacterial defences and allow antibiotics to do the work they were born to do.
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It took a whole day of hard effort to knock down the wall.
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To knock down ( an opponent in an athletic contest ) by hooking the neck with an outstretched arm.
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There was a low protecting wall to knock down the heat blasting from the pit of the furnace.
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Now, if he knocks down a single, you knock down a single; if he knocks down two in one triplet, you knock down two in the other triplet; if he knocks down the central kayle in a triplet, you knock down the central one in the other triplet.
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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They punch or bite well above their weight and have been known to knock down rabbits ten times their size.
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And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.
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Elephants knock down trees while feeding, and these fallen trees then become accessible to smaller herbivores such as blackbuck and sambar that cannot reach the branches of upright trees.
Saving Two of the World's Most Treasured Species: The African Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 and The Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997
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The market might abandon the stock, and knock down its price.
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Keeeep walking, but shoo wone knock down our wall.
To Err is Human, To Arr is Pirate
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Lonely dribbles from the half way line and big punts for Drogba to knock down seemed to be all they had to offer.
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We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again.
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When done, give the wall a light sanding to knock down any burrs or ridges.
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We get a man in to knock down the hideous garage and put up a new fence.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a low protecting wall to knock down the heat blasting from the pit of the furnace.
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The open-source (and, of course, portable) tool offers a range of compression methods, ranging in compatability and effectiveness, that knock down the executables, ZIP files, and other elements that get to work once you point it at your portable app folder.
AppCompactor Cuts (Some) Portable Apps Down To Size | Lifehacker Australia
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They are huge, ponderous things that threaten to get tangled up and knock down anyone who comes near.
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We get a man in to knock down the hideous garage and put up a new fence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The market might abandon the stock, and knock down its price.
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She does not want to knock down his self - esteem .
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He skyrocketed into the room and knock down a chair.
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As in the West, alcohol in Taiwanese culture is a social lubricant, the imbibing of which is seen by many as a measure of fortitude and spunk -- particularly if drinkers knock down a shot of hard liquor like kaoliang in one gulp.
Archive 2006-06-01
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The aim in bowling is to knock down all the pins with one or two bowls.
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In the eighth round Ali was able to knock down his exhausted opponent, who failed to get up to make the count.
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The council aims to delist the 18th-century doorcases at York Street flats, then knock down the building, despite vehement opposition from residents.
