Sentence examples for knocking it over from inspiring English sources

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Boston Dynamics, the company behind Atlas, recently released a video that shows researchers shoving the humanoid robot with a hockey stick, knocking a box out of its hands, and knocking it over with a pole.

Being awarded the chess cup at school, and then knocking it over on the school hall floor causing the most almightly clang in the middle of assembly.

With the alternative continuation, "… knocking it over," the choice of coreferent would be reversed, because knock over prefers something solid and upright as its object.

A band who spent 30 years playing with the building blocks of national imagery building it up, knocking it over, scattering it around was now the centre of the biggest anglo-nationalist spectacle this side of the 1995 referendum.

If the bride and groom can kiss each other over the tiered cake, without knocking it over, it is good luck.

It's between flowers at the moment, hence it's tucked away here to stop me knocking it over.

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Rotational inertia keeps a spinning top balancing on its tip: If you try to knock it over, the Coriolis force pushes it to the side instead.

From just to the right, Madigan knocks it over easily.

"You knocked it over, you pick it up".

If my son knocks it over, we're all covered".

Reach for something with my right hand and knock it over with my left elbow.

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