Sentence examples for I knocked off from inspiring English sources

"For some reason I couldn't get down to my own work, but I had brought with me the Loeb parallel text of Euripides and so I knocked off Medea in five days.

The third or fourth time I knocked off the nose on a head -- one slip was all it took -- and had to begin anew I came to have greater appreciation for the Greek masters.

One day last month, Mr. Simpson, known as Bobby I, knocked off from his part-time job at the Three Pickles deli and headed toward Hendry's Beach, just outside the Santa Barbara city limits, said Robert Lovejoy, who owns the deli with his son, Clay.

It was something that I knocked off at a party in Scandinavia after a gig in '65-'66.

And as I did, I felt less cynical, humbled by the ease with which I knock off 20 crap thrillers a year.

When I knock off that one, a squat travel book beckons, "Seeking Provence: Old Myths, New Paths," part of a British series from Haus Publishing called Armchair Traveler, distributed in the United States by Consortium.

Three times a week, I have to dash off to night school as soon as I knock off from work at 5 30 p.m. Forget about dinner.

I knock off the back lid to grab the handle so it'll stop flooding, then realise I'm standing over a full bowl with one leg and, because the other is holding the handle, only one arm.

"I used a motorbike to get to work on and one day I got knocked off," says Costello, whom I found wandering anonymously - almost - through the paddock.

"I'd knocked off one of my obsessions, so I thought I should tackle another," he says.

"So we go for Chidzulo because that's when I have knocked off from school and I am a little bit free," she adds.