How To Use Knocking In A Sentence
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Ray was knocking them down one by one, unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down.
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My son caught it by knocking it off the car with a twig, then coaxing it on to a piece of card, and then putting it in a jam jar.
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She narrowly missed out on gold to Pippa Funnell after knocking down a fence in the showjumping.
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BELL: Now, under the law, police may enter a home without knocking if certain so-called exigent circumstances exist.
CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2008
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By ‘real’ stress I mean when the bank heavies are actually knocking on your door and it's pay up time on the arrears on the house payments.
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As she crossed the fields a shell exploded close to her, fracturing her legs and knocking her to the ground.
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The fox gave a yip as Ferric entered and pounced on the boy, easily knocking him over.
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I thought we started positively and we were knocking it about but then we started to over-elaborate.
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Heck, sometime the chips they carry are so large that you have to be a contortionist to avoid knocking them over.
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Strangely, having run his fastest to get to her, Hyacinth seemed almost reluctant to knock at the door, or enter without knocking, and while he was hesitating on the doorstone her singing ceased, and she came out to see whose fleet footsteps had stirred the small stones of the pathway.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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The victim then approaches the youth and throws a fierce right-hand jab, punching him on the chin and knocking him unconscious.
Times, Sunday Times
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We suddenly heard a feeble clang of the gate - like someone was knocking, but not very hard.
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While driving your car, you can also listen to the engine: if you hear knocking, it's a good sign that you have trouble.
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Typhoon Roke first made landfall in the tourist town of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time Wednesday, knocking over trucks and ripping roofs from homes, then crawled up Japan's Honshu island.
Storm Strikes Central Japan
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Her legs gave way and she fell, knocking the wind out of her lungs and cracking her head against the hard, tiled floor.
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Caitlin launched herself at him - a sudden spinning kick knocking him backwards.
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I left the rest of my shopping and ran for the car, knocking over a display of biscuits in my haste to dodge people and escape.
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Flash forward forty years, and the buddies are in dissatisfied retirement when fate comes knocking.
Surprise Party
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Twenty years ago they were knocking seven bells out of each other in the ghastliest of wars.
The Sun
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He was an unsuccessful candidate in the general election and he came knocking at my door for my vote.
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Changes include knocking down walls on the ground and first floors to add rooms.
The Sun
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The group then moved closer to where the marked UN vehicles were parked and another shot hit a building next to them, knocking pieces of masonry to the ground near her.
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Accidentally knocking over the bottle, I watched as the crimson coloured liquid soaked into the white papers.
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The coopers walk round the barrel knocking down the temporary iron hoops.
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Sawyers, in their light-blue carriage with the white hammercloth and blue and white ribbons -- their footmen drove the house down with the knocking.
A Little Dinner at Timmin's
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No, it's not mine; it's been knocking about the house for years.
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Lou reached back her fist and lunged it forward, knocking one guy into another one and down they went.
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I squeaked in surprise, flinging my hand sideways and knocking half a dozen books off the shelf.
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Six minutes into the half, Allback outleaped Beckham for Linderoth's corner, knocking the ball back toward the goal and over England goalie Paul Robinson to tie it.
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Before Christian's father and uncle could react, he charged, knocking the pair aside with well-aimed punches.
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They wrestled against the back cupboard, knocking a keg of ale to the floor.
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In fact, she could almost feel her knees knocking together.
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That gave him the opportunity to tackle Anthony down again, knocking him out cold.
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From next year, Year 10 and 11 students would have to do 20 hours of community service - from doorknocking to coaching sport teams - over the two years.
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They observe a kind of partial fast in the morning, knocking back a single espresso while standing at the counter and perusing Corriere della Sera, allowing themselves a few bites of brioche con marmellata, so as to enhance the pleasure of their midday pasta and meat, their broccoletta rabi, pollo a la cacciatore, penne amatriciana, spaghetti al mare.
The Italian Summer
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A ball of hail the size of her fist slammed into her back, driving the air from her lungs and knocking her to the ground, the impact dazing her.
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Some thought he was about to insconce himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down
Waverley — Complete
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But then Pandorama 'clouted' three out, surely knocking his confidence at a crucial stage of the contest.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Our arguments, our anger, the anxious pleading of philanthropists who saw the young on the East Side going to ruin, the warning year after year of the superintendent of schools that the compulsory education law was but an empty mockery where it was most needed, the knocking of uncounted thousands of children for whom there was no room, uncounted in sober fact; there was not even a way of finding out how many were adrift, 3brought only the response that the tax rate must be kept down.
II. The Outworks of the Slum Taken
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I sort of blinked, decided I was dreaming again - I often dream there's someone ringing or knocking at the door - and drifted back to sleep.
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We left the house with Kate knocking the light switches off with her elbow.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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A shock ran through him like a physical blow, catching him in the stomach and nearly knocking him over.
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I was just starting to wrestle out of my oversized shirt, shivering slightly in the cold bathroom, when a heard a faint knocking on the main door.
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I swished my way through the center of town, knocking people down and upturning garbage cans.
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When they were close enough to the unsuspecting woman, they pounced, knocking her to the ground.
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The Vieux Carre, you must know, is the old French heart of New Orleans, and one gigantic fleshpot fine houses and walks, excellent eating-places and gardens, brilliantly lit by night, with music and gaiety and colour everywhere, and every second establishment a knocking-shop.
Isabelle
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Exhausted, he slowed to a walk, hastily knocking tree limbs out of his way and gasping for air.
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My knees were knocking just a little by the time I got down and I would recommend anyone who didn't like loose rock and scree to go back down the way they came.
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Some thought he was about to insconce himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Balmawhapple.
Waverley
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To enquire about a price is to enter into a binding agreement: the stall-holder will keep knocking the price until he or she arrives at a tariff agreeable to you.
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If what I saw while knocking around Greenpoint yesterday was any indication, there was a lot of "armer" being "sprayed".
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Sean pistol-whipped the man, knocking him senseless.
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She pushed the stallholder out of the way, jumped onto the trestle table, knocking over a set of saucepans.
CHAMELEON
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I think that's the one thing that over the first four or five years (in New York), I kept knocking myself over the head, and trying to re-explain myself.
A-Rod keeps his cool under heat of news media pressure
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While they were watching their single, another machine was knocking out Paul McCartney's new album at one every 2 seconds.
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I cannot condone the knocking down of old ladies in pursuit of a Panzers bagel, but sometimes there isn't any other way.
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The country club set, knocking back martinis and Manhattans and Cosmopolitans, looks down on the rednecks at the noisy beer joint across the county line, and the writers and intellectuals at the local college sneer at both groups for being "alkies" but believe that a trip on the latest psychedelic drug is an intellectual adventure.
The O'Reilly Factor
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Dustin Johnson grounded his club in a bunker he didn't know he was in at the PGA Championship, and the PGA of America notified him of the two-stroke penalty before he signed his card, knocking him out of a playoff.
TV Viewer Gets Golfer Disqualified
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Baruchel Undeclared is nerdily charming, but Johnson chews too much scenery to go with the whiskeys the script has him knocking back, and both attorneys are saddled with such cornily dramatic closing-arguments speeches that you will end up rooting for the jury to send an innocent man to jail, just to spite them.
Reunited, and, Well, Frankly, It Could Feel Better - Tuned In - TIME.com
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Sat nav is the cause of much trouble, as HGV drivers blindly follow their sav nav down country lanes and get stuck and knocking chucks out of cob walls.
Satnav, democracy and dumbing down
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The soldiers simply let their weapons fly-several of the bursts and streaks of ammunition hit him when he was in the air, knocking him back.
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Cars and lorries hurtle past him on roads that have no pavements, often coming within inches of knocking him into oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boys were knocking a ball around in the back yard.
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Suddenly something struck him hard, knocking him to one side.
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Chris hesitates for a beat before rushing up and knocking Johnnie down in a quick flurry of shots.
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After ringing and knocking for some time Sid finally answered the door.
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The act of dressing up and begging door to door actually extends as far back as the Middle Ages when the poor would go knocking on doors on Hallowmas (November 1st).
Reyne Haines: Reyne Gauge: The History of Halloween
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Frank sneaked behind him, and pistol-whipped him, knocking him unconscious.
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The surge of electricity blew a nearby transformer, knocking out the power supply.
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Fergus and I, after having lain awake for a considerable time, taking it for granted that they had given up all intention of attacking the house, at length fell into a kind of wakeful doze from which we were at once aroused by a loud knocking at the hall-door.
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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Without any hesitation, I entwine my legs with his and forcefully twist them, knocking him into the third guy there.
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Gasping in the fresh cold air, Christopher cleared away the shards with a side table, knocking out the frame as he did so.
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I'm sure I've got a copy of 'Time's Arrow' knocking about somewhere.
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That set of promises and principles from 16 years ago is widely seen as one of the reasons Republicans succeeded in knocking entrenched Congressional Democrats out of power.
GOP to unveil campaign pledge after Labor Day
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It was overturning cars and knocking over down buildings, trying desperately to catch Jordan.
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The shrill sound of Iris's voice (as well as her sharp knocking on the door) immediately changes the mood in the room.
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So when Glenn came knocking on her door a year after she walked out of his, bearing a bouquet of out-of-season ranunculus, she welcomed him back with cautiously open arms, sick of hoping to meet him, ready to be an us again.
Georgia’s Kitchen
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The.22 caliber slug had ricocheted off the top of his cranium, knocking him cold as effectively as a hammer.
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He shot forward suddenly, knocking me backwards with a powerful kick to my chest.
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Backing out faster than a drunkard reversing his vehicle, cheeks aflame, Jody remembers the useful rule of always knocking before entering.
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Any borderman who had ever seen a mountain cat fight a bear and win would have nodded in recognition as Cathan pounced on the hulking patriarch, knocking him sideways then dragging him down onto the ground.
Chosen Of The Gods
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Zoe screeched and pinwheeled her arms as if trying to drive away a horde of mosquitoes, knocking his own arm down.
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For months, he lived in terror of the secret police knocking at his door.
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`People come knocking on doors round `ere it's the rent or the busies," explained the crone.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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He burst into the room without knocking.
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She flung out her arms, accidentally knocking Nishair on the nose, who fell back and stepped on Riviara's toes who stumbled back and tried to look dignified while windmilling her arms around.
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The knocking, the soft voice, recurred throughout the day and into the night.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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To make matters worse at the time he succeeded to the ownership of Barra, the Government reduced the duty on imported barilla, knocking out the prop which kept the kelping industry afloat.
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His strike hit home, knocking a few of the armoured scales loose and inflicting a minor wound.
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However, as Bret was walking back to his corner on the ring apron, Owen was whipped into the ropes, knocking Bret off and into the guard rail.
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Perhaps in her doddering senility, she was subconsciously confusing it with all the dry sherry she was knocking back.
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There is certified non-biotech grain in storage bins at many elevators, available at a premium, but few processors are knocking at the door right now.
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The council takes a lot of knocking, but on this occasion their efforts demand nothing but applause.
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When they unfurled it dozens of cops swarmed over the protesters, knocking them to the ground and arresting several.
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The dog had placed both front paws on her shoulders, knocking her down onto the grass of Hamilton Park.
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By way of an introduction thought I'd post a polemic piece that I've been knocking about for a while.
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They began by knocking down the burdens of the hindermost of my men, and several shots were fired, each party spreading out on both sides of the path.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Driving for three hours was like knocking over an anthill and daring a hundred little creatures to gnaw on my nerve endings.
Chocolate & Vicodin
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I'm sure I've got a copy of 'Time's Arrow' knocking about somewhere.
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Those two are quite capable of knocking a million books when they play scatty cats round the house.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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He ran the length of the pitch, knocking Leigh defenders down like skittles to score a sensational try and claim victory for Keighley.
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You can get some exercise by knocking a ball about a field with a friend.
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My answer is that more than knocking gold down to discourage the bond vigilantes from moving out of bonds into tangibles is involved.
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Consequently, I thought that we could take for our Monday morning gun porn, the iconic Webley revolver - perfectly suited for knocking big chunks out of fuzzy-wuzzies ...
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At points I was considering getting a large hammer and knocking most of my own teeth out.
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Anest was awakened from the deep, dream-filled, restorative sleep of the travel-weary by an annoying, persistent knocking at the door.
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Jim hung his coat on a peg in the waiting area and walked over to the door, knocking quietly as he opened it.
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Page 168 the queen's work-box, and, in defiance of all my efforts to prevent him, he seized one piece, which he called a hammer, and began violently knocking the table with it.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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Perhaps they pick up their fellow carpooler everyday in the early morning and don't care if they wake up the neighbors by tooting the horn rather than getting out and knocking on the door.
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He fell and just missed knocking the whole display over.
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She bumped into his tray, knocking the food onto his lap.
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The men assaulted the guards, knocking the male to the floor and kicking and punching him while pointing a gun at him.
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Measuring ten metres in girth, weighing 23 tons and knocking on a bit at about 800 years old, the tree is an impressive - if ungainly - sight.
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The game around Barnsley was known as Potty Knocking or just Knurr as the Knurr is a ceramic sphere about 15 mm in diameter commonly used in the kettles of the pre-war era to stop limescale furring it up.
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This weariness is interrupted by the knocking of an Indian on your window … tap, tap, tap …
Global Voices in English » Bahrain: Our Need For Indians Is Like Our Need For Air
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The Belarusian will surely win another slam this season, with her prospects of knocking Williams off one of her perches at Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows looking good.
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He kept running and smacked into him, knocking both of them down in the muck on the ground.
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It's knocking on doors and resurfacing the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sat nav is the cause of much trouble, as HGV drivers blindly follow their sav nav down country lanes and get stuck and knocking chucks out of cob walls.
Satnav, democracy and dumbing down
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The brick connected on her head, knocking her out
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You can't just waltz into my bedroom without knocking - it's private!
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Five countries have permanent seats on the UN Security Council but Germany and Japan, among others, are knocking on the door.
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Joe, when you envision the fight taking place , do you envision knocking out Lacy?
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An earthquake rattled the area knocking the teen hero to the ground.
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The victim then approaches the youth and throws a fierce right-hand jab, punching him on the chin and knocking him unconscious.
Times, Sunday Times
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He hugged me, introduced me to some of The Fine Arts Militia, and they did a banging performance knocking us all down with the funk.
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Again, not knocking it or anybody's taste in armament, just wanting to better understand.
Rifle Review: Petzal Tests the Marlin .338 MXLR
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The carriage jolted through a particularly overeager rut, knocking my still-tender back against the seat and jerking me back to the present.
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Hencke heard one canister bounce off the outer hull with a dull echo like the Devil knocking at the door.
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She ended up falling on the wet ground with a squish and the bag falling on top of her, knocking the wind out of her.
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Remembered for knocking out Josh Koscheck in his UFC debut, Paulo Thiago (fighting out of Brasilia, Brazil) has copiousness of intensity as well as an 11-1 veteran jot down to go with it.
UFC Confirms Remaining Bouts For UFC 106 - [Blog]
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Knocking copy is simply lazy journalism.
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Murillo is known in Asia to be a second-rate producer knocking off designs here and there.
Stylish Rack For All of You Wine Lovers
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I mean, I feel better when I get my schedule and todo items recorded and not cluttering my brain, I wonder what other cruft is knocking around up there.
Minor Observations
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She heard the dull thump of someone knocking weakly on the door.
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You can't just waltz into my bedroom without knocking - it's private!
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He will be under pressure next season to have the Bluejays again knocking on the NCAA tourney door after having their streak of 20 or more victories snapped at 11 straight seasons.
Missouri Valley Conference
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I was intrigued to discover that enterprising later medieval peasants would make a quick profit on the side by knocking up a cruck frame using illegal wood from the local lord's forest, and then smartly on-selling before being nabbed, developing the original prefab house!
Thatched barns and stave churches: the possibilities of Anglo-Saxon timber architecture
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He jumped backwards on top of the buffet table, knocking down some precious plates and dinnerware.
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When it comes to knocking the stuffing out of rival teams, Hearts are becoming something akin to specialists.
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Knocking down and killing someone when driving after drinking alcohol is next door to a murder.
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So stop knocking the town you live in and be proud of what we have and what has been achieved here.
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He was not the only player to do that, of course, nor even the only player in the Italy team, obviously, but he was by far the most irritating offender, primarily because even after the referee made his decisions, the gawkish saltimbanco harangued his supposed aggressor with all the righteous indignation of a nun in a knocking shop.
The Guardian World News
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The press has questioned the government's right to cite ill-defined "public interest" as an excuse for knocking down homes.
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One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door.
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The stunning songwriter has sustained a glittering career, but she's had enough and she's knocking it on the head.
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The crowd roared as Derryn swung his sword up, the large blade of his broadsword knocking aside the slash aimed at his head.
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The Brooklyn boxer stunned Rangel with a solid left before knocking him out with a powerful right.
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I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.Sentence dictionary
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The family drops by often; so much so, in fact, that knocking on the door is a formality they no longer observe.
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I also signed up to go doorknocking tomorrow night and to drive voters to the polls on election day.
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Travel agents are knocking ￡50 and sometimes ￡100 off the price of holidays.
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It's knocking on doors and resurfacing the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thieves attacked a man on crutches in front of his teenage daughter, knocking him to the ground and riffling thorough his pockets in a Hanworth street last week.
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Suddenly out of the blue my 35 kg kelpie Jessica bolts from around the other side of the house nearly knocking me of my feet.
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This time, it wasn't all bad news – BRITNEY SPEARS SPLIT UP STEPS read one recent headline – but there were reports that tickets for her Birmingham show had sold so poorly that the promoters had been forced to indulge in what they called "segmented marketing to reach new customers", which turned out to mean knocking £25 off the ticket price.
Britney Spears – review
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They spent the sixties knocking their country over dinner and waving banners at a liberal president.
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Travel agents are knocking ￡50 and sometimes ￡100 off the price of holidays.
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This was a man who has spent the previous four weeks doorknocking in the Liberal cause.
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Her feet skidded slightly as she tried to change her direction, nearly knocking her onto her back.
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I whacked a gurrier in Dublin in the side of his hood when he lunged for the phone near Merrion Square, nearly knocking him off his bike in the process.
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I bounced and jittered to the music, knocking into the guy next to me a few times.
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His teeth were rattling in head, his legs had turned to jelly and his knees were knocking together like castanets.
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But my people are knocking over right-wing extremists quite regularly.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a measure, on a scale 1 to 100, of the resistance of a fuel, usually gasoline, to preignition or knocking in an internal combustion engine.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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They don't have to worry about the cops knocking on their door at dinner time and rousting them.
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I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.
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I'll be doing some doorknocking this weekend, and working on the next campaign push from our team.
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I don't think Sarkozy's paid any political price at all for this -- on the contrary, by knocking it off with the tightlipped Mrs Grundy gaybashing, he's gained enormously.
Warren Ellis
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Out of nowhere, a stampede of dogs came rushing forth, knocking me over and to the ground.
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She shook her head and stood a stack of photos on edge, knocking them against the desktop to neaten them up.
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Jen fumbled with shaking hands through the skinny glass shelves, knocking everything out.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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One is an idea I've had knocking around since about 1994, and is set at about that time and a couple of years either side of it.
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In this country we tend to either over praise someone, before knocking them down, or we just tear them to pieces straight away.
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After he checkmated her the second time, she sighed and sat back after knocking her king over.
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Like a couple of shady characters knocking around the port in Nice.
Times, Sunday Times
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One day while working, doorknocking and giving away free tickets to a holiday, as long as they had a free demonstration in exchange, I got the feeling again.
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KineHUHre is used as a verbal device similar to knocking on wood to ward off evil forces.
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This is known as pinking, and can be identified by a knocking sound coming from the engine.
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Mr. Mehrotra's cunning deployment of enjambment—the breaking of a phrase or sentence across a poetic line—propels us from one line to the next, re-enacting, in the four-line opening sentence, the way the mind pieces together the meaning of the world from the messages of the senses, before knocking it out with the clean, flat declaration of the line that follows.
When Mysticism Came Down to Earth
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I observed crowds of party-animal stockbrokers knocking back cups of sweet-potato shochu, and shochu infused with Turkish apricots, both of which tasted more or less like fiery rotgut to me.
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Moved by this experience and others, I soon found myself knocking at the door of the friary.
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Very drunk, he accidentally pushed her with his kit bag, knocking her off the path and into the river Cam.
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What was odd was that I should lead the way and not the Colombian still engaged in knocking on the glass door.
The Unexamined Saturday « Unknowing
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The children were knocking the bottom of the box.
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Outside all was quiet again until an almost inaudible knocking on the door.
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When Frank was at his creative peak in the mid-fifties, a young Elvis hit with the hammer that was Rock & Roll, knocking Sinatra down several pegs as popular music upheaved huge and fearsome stalagmites around him.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Anti-drink drive campaigners today blasted magistrates for not jailing a mum who drove off with her young son after knocking back a bottle of wine.
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So one imagines busloads of volunteers wandering the streets, knocking on doors, rousting people out of bus stations, and hauling them to the polls where they can simultaneously register and vote.
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Even when a previous chairman was taped in a Spanish knocking-shop talking about 'slappers' and the profit margin on replica shirts they kept loyal.
Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor
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In an economy quickly going down the toilet faster than a nickel bag when the police come a-knocking, decriminalized and government-sanctioned "ganja" could 'pot'-entially create more and literally' green 'jobs, add much needed tax revenues, and end the criminality and high-cost incarceration (inordinately of young black males) attached to its production, sale and consumption.
Michael DeJong: A New "Green" Economy
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The warm sunlight gave him a lazy, comfortable, lie-around-all-morning-and-scratch-your-armpits feeling, but inside his nose the cilia were waving, the turbinates were knocking, and the spheno-ethmoidal recess was on red alert: by Woden's honey pots, what a scent!
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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Now as he bespake her thus and strave to comfort her, what while she answered him not a syllable, lo! there came a knocking at the palace-gate.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Shot after shot puffs out of the barrel, knocking dust all around the buck.
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At a place called "Dick's Tree," not far from Longtown, there still stands the "smiddy" where lived the blacksmith who had the honour of knocking off Kinmont Willie's fetters.
Stories of the Border Marches
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I spent a couple of hours this afternoon doorknocking up and down.
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It brings to mind the ludicrous feud between Liam Gallagher and Robbie Williams, who need their silly heads knocking together.
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KineHUHre is used as a verbal device similar to knocking on wood to ward off evil forces.
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Cafes lining the ice-blue water are busy with fishermen knocking back treacly shots of espresso, chattering away in Roman slang, the air scented with freshly roasting porchetta.
Plucking the Finest Fruits From the Sea
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At this level the riders are not timed, but penalties are awarded for faults such as refusal to jump or knocking down a fence.
