Sentence examples for knocks by from inspiring English sources

Moore then started to run through his and Parsons' list of questions: :"Are you the wife of Mr. Kent?" —Two knocks :"Did you die naturally?" —Two knocks :"By poison?" —One knock :"Did any person other than Mr. Kent administer it?" —Two knocks After more questions, a member of the audience exclaimed "Kent, ask this Ghost if you shall be hanged".

One man responded to her knocks by shouting, "I already voted!" from his living room.

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.

But Renzi must have expected to take some knocks by then, and it turned out that he got them quickly, when, late last month, seven of Italy's twenty regions held elections.

At the end of the novel's opening paragraph, after a reference to Heraclitus, Augie tells us that "there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles".

Special shout-out to Susan Sarandon, who dabbles in deceptive drinks in two movies this year: first, as the sozzled nan keen on casual sex and spirits from a slushie cup in dud comedy Tammy; second, as a cop in The Calling who copes with the knocks by making all her coffees Irish.

A Robson corner was knocked by Andrew Considine into the path of the Aberdeen captain Russell Anderson.

The US industrial average was knocked by record-breaking losses at insurer AIG.

This has become a decent knock by the Yorkshireman, albeit almost certainly in a losing cause.

(Already in the twenties, chemists proposed eliminating knock by increasing the octane level in gasoline, as was eventually done).

Del Boy, the dodgy wheeler-dealer with a heart of gold, though knocked by life many times, never would stay down.