Sentence examples for a bit knocked from inspiring English sources

Lawyers will be concerned that it is sufficiently rigorous to weed out those complainants who are just trying it on to get a bit knocked off their bill, or are simply unhappy with the outcome of their case.

My job was to make the case for this deal to governments around the world and to get all the regulatory clearances that were needed and to work with our antitrust lawyers to get those clearances to make the case to Congress and the media, to some extent, about this merger, and I was just frankly stunned and a bit knocked back on my heels by the prospect of securing all of those approvals.

Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.

It seems almost unfair, a bit like knocking out Joe Frazier and watching Muhammad Ali get up in his place.

"Would I accept regulation that slows innovation a bit and knocks three percentage points off my returns if it promised greater stability?

Sometimes hard heads need a bit of knocking against each other, maybe with a good mediator thrown in, to find the good sense necessary to get to a reasonable end.

Also, the term "regeneration" encompasses a wide spectrum, from comprehensive "decanting" and demolition to quite limited amounts of it - even the King Square scenario involves a bit of knocking down.

As she explains in her book, she'd already done quite a bit of knocking around by then, earning an acting M.F.A. at Cornell, surviving an unsuccessful stint in New York, and hosting home-shopping shows in Chicago (now there's some humble pie) before joining The Second City touring company while Steve Carrell, Stephen Colbert, and Amy Sedaris were all on the main stage.

If SkyFire could clean up its looks a bit and knock out some of the lingering bugs, however, they'd have a real winner here.

"Because of the slowing economy and falling employment, their business slowed a bit and that knocked down the price of their stock," Mr. Nicholas said, "allowing us to buy what I consider a great franchise at a good price".

However, he was a bit nervous and knocked the tube out.