Sentence examples for be knocked about a from inspiring English sources

"It has to be knocked about a bit," he said.

"What Gallico did was to climb down out of the press box," Mr. Plimpton said, creating "a wonderful description of what it feels like to be knocked about by a champion".

He predicted that Wright's Sunday sermon will be "either a non-issue or will be a single-day flash-pan issue to be knocked about by the political pundits to create controversy where there really is none".

If Johnson is standing in an open field, then he may be knocked about, but there's little else to factor in.

The world is coming at him and vice versa, and he will be knocked about but not out.

To demand loyalty to every fibre of the plot would be absurd; if any novel is rich and robust enough to be knocked about, it is this one.

A few dozen watch stands are knocked about, without a watch in sight.

We have been knocked about on tour but have shown a bit of resilience".

"I had been knocked about very considerably," he remarks.

Naidoo had been knocked about by the police, and had named names.

I have post-traumatic stress disorder because we were knocked about daily at Central.