Sentence examples for knocking star from inspiring English sources

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Following a robust debut in the US, The Revenant has opened in the UK with a stunning £5.09m (plus £146,000 in previews), knocking Star Wars: The Force Awakens off the top spot.

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These figures mimic how Beauty's teaser trailer knocked Star Wars's equivalent off the No 1 spot in May, taking 91.8m views, over Star Wars's 88m.

This inevitable sequel has already knocked Star Wars: The Force Awakens off the number one spot in the US, proving, once again, that critics really do have zero effect on box office.

So the new Star Trek is an enormous success, far more than I expected, in the hands of director J.J. Abrams and his group, including writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (who ironically scripted the Transformers picture likely to knock Star Trek off the live-action title of the year).

There were also the two elephants in the mixed zone: first, the flurry of positive doping tests that knocked stars like Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell and Veronica Campbell-Brown out of the championships; second, the international backlash to Russia's new legislation banning gay propaganda to minors, which sparked, by the end, all manner of debate as the meet progressed.

The roles of Woody and Richardson were filled from within, with Wayne Hunter now starting at right tackle and the "Hard Knocks" star John Conner at fullback.

(8) Back to article The album Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me by the Opportunity Knocks star was released by Stax in 1974.

Downturn or not, they've long enjoyed knocking these stars down only to build them up.

In order to confirm the role of StAR, we performed the experiments with siRNA to knock-down StAR expression prior to PA treatment.

Powerful jets from the heart of the blast have split the explosion and knocked the star's dense corpse reeling.

The Anchorman 2 and Knocked Up star will play bio-chemist Dr Hank Pym, who invents a formula which allows him to shrink to the size of an ant.

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