Sentence examples for knock like from inspiring English sources

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We told them, 'Don't knock like this, please.' During the day, she need to nap.

"In cold weather conditions, the tram rails are placed with little gaps in between each other, and those gaps create this special sonic knock, like a never ending techno track".

Mackenzie is wise enough, however, not to try to ape the manners of the Master as well as his themes; "Mister Foe" is shifty and jolting to look at, immune to the charms of urbanity, and sprinkled with a rash of plaintive songs, courtesy of bands such as Franz Ferdinand, and drums that knock like heartbeats.

Amid some pretty ordinary batting from those above him, and while some of the greats of the game were saying someone else should be in his place, a knock like that suggests to me that Nevill has the temperament to go far in international cricket.

If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel 200 yards in four seconds, and all you've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly.

"Some doors I'll knock like three times per day - am, pm, and in the midday," she says as she clutches a handful of fliers in the car park.

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He has also been fending off citizen watchdogs who are working to knock sites likes his off the Internet.

"You knocking like you scared," chuckles the bodyguard who opens his door to let Broomfield in.

"The poor midgety brute" -- that's Princess Margaret -- "was knocked like a top, sometimes almost into a complete circle".

Gemsbok dropped their heads and jousted, their horns knocking like percussion instruments at the end of each charge.

You have to have knocks like this that hurt you initially to have the conversations that take you forward and that's part of our journey".

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