Sentence examples for had knocked down from inspiring English sources

Idiom

You could have knocked me down with a feather.

This idiom is used to mean that the person was very shocked or surprised.

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Bulldozers had knocked down most of the shacks.

She justly boasted that she had knocked down the brick walls others had hit.

The crowd had knocked down the lip and eliminated the definition of the bunker.

We passed one that Hurricane Betsy had knocked down in 1965.

There was a small gate behind the Malibu Rum platform that someone had knocked down.

And yes, it had knocked down buildings before, good ones even, to make way for earlier expansions.

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"They've knocked down three," he shouted in exultation.

It has knocked down a lot of barriers, and I've learned.

"We have knocked down our court to build a treatment spa".

"The whole Gayngs thing has knocked down so many doors for my brain," Vernon admitted last week.

'If we were in a studio, I could have knocked down walls.

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