Sentence examples for knocks from inspiring English sources

Hayne tries to feed Jennings on the left but Hodges knocks the ball down.

But there is a country that knocks the baseballing nation for a cricketing six – Bangladesh.

In his case, you’d guess that it was related to an introspection developed in response to an unsettled early life and, second, to an imagination that served (and presumably serves) as a refuge from the knocks he took then.

Simon Mayo informs us Itch "had caused explosions before", as our eponymous hero knocks himself out in a phosphorous-related bedroom blast.

As Farron knocks on doors, something he claims to do at least once a week out of election time, his rapport with voters is clear.

It is loving them so much that you feel constant fear: fear that they are going to run out into the road or fall out of a window, fear that you're not a good enough mother, fear that Philip Larkin was right … It is worry when they're ill, sorrow when they're unhappy, and protective fury when another bigger kid knocks them over in the playground.

Neither of those two knocks were as good as Ken McEwan's 128 for Essex three years earlier.

Yes! Gillett knocks on a few metres out.

And when Daly Cherry-Evans, the sunniest, nicest piece of Queensland between the Spit Bridge and Barrenjoey Lighthouse knocks over a 40 metre field goal that sails through the sticks as time ticks over to full-time … well … The old joint just about shakes off its concrete-cancerous foundations.

Imagine the uproar right now if Olive's family had suggested she had been driven to suicide by multiple door knocks by doorstep sellers flogging cavity wall insulation.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 8.45am AEST23:45 While I have an ear on Sky, the shadow immigration minister Richard Marles is signalling that if the High Court knocks out Manus at 10.15am – Labor stands ready to help the government clean up.