Sentence examples for does not knock on from inspiring English sources

This time, he does not knock on the door.

If your engine does not "knock" on regular, paying more for a higher octane rating is a waste since the increased octane makes no significant improvement to gas mileage and it is no better for your engine.

If all that doesn't knock on the door of happiness, nothing will!

THE GHOST ATE MY MANUSCRIPT Lonely and long-dead, Gustavo doesn't knock on walls, hide spoons or float about like an incorporeal marshmallow.

The Department of Homeland Security doesn't knock on my door very often demanding to know my source for the latest Google acquisition rumor.

The real estate agent who sold me my house doesn't knock on my door every month to check what pictures I have hanging on the walls, so why should Apple have this right?

"It takes some aggressiveness to get three shows on the air, because the network doesn't knock on your door, you have to go and knock on their door, maybe repeatedly, and ask them if they're going to do it".

"Do not knock on the door!" she yelled.

A police spokesman said Thursday that the hotel housekeeper who was allegedly assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn did not knock on the door of his suite, and did not use a card key to enter.

Though the race rules insist that competitors "do not knock on strangers' doors" for help with photos ("People don't like that," the race handbook admonishes), contestants often develop a sort of camaraderie with race onlookers.

Databases do not knock on doors, make phonecalls, push for institutional reform, create new services for citizens, or educate the masses about the inner workings of the labyrinthine bureaucracies that surround us.