Sentence examples for knocking them into from inspiring English sources

She was given proofs to read for the associate editors, and before too long she was knocking them into better shape.

"The preview given to advertisers featured lingering close-ups of contestants jiggling in Spandex, tripping across a narrow platform next to a wall from which boxing gloves jab, knocking them into a muddy lake, and flailing — and falling — across four enormous rubber contraptions called 'The Big Balls.'" The scenes earned big laughs from the audience.

Phil Spector had an unsuccessful bash at knocking them into shape in 1971, but it wasn't until 1977, when a German label put out an album of the Beatles live at the Star Club in Hamburg in 1962 that Capitol sprang in to action.

As Hermione tries to help the riders away from Aragog and towards the castle, encountering many spiders on the way, they encounter an animatronic Whomping Willow which swipes at them, knocking them into the Quidditch pitch.

Batman also bends over backwards to avoid killing his adversaries -- "We're on to your rules," mob boss Maroni tells him in The Dark Knight -- while of course having no compunctions about knocking them into the next time zone.

Now the Phillies have only 72 games to overtake the Mets and knock them into last place.

But the opening of Morden - if it is a mosque - knocks them into second and third place.

Without warning, a gushing onslaught of water from the wings knocks them into one another and down to the ground, obscuring individuals in one churning, flailing mass.

SO a rabbi, a psychiatrist and a reporter are kayaking around Long Island, when all of a sudden a giant wave knocks them into Atlantic Ocean.

When the McInerney crew boarded the vessel, the smugglers inside Bigfoot II reversed direction to try to knock them into the sea.

There they may dodge barrels, walk across a narrow ledge, leap onto spinning platforms and avoid a "sweeper arm" designed to knock them into the water below.