Sentence examples for needed to be knocked from inspiring English sources

"I hate to say it, but I needed to be knocked down," Mesi said.

"[It was] a house that needed to be knocked down and [started] afresh.

"[It was] a house that needed to be knocked down and start afresh," Di Matteo said of his first impressions after taking over at Villa Park last month.

Earlier in the day, Jersey City fire officials had determined that the west and south walls of the warehouse needed to be knocked down so fire hoses could be directed toward the most intense part of the fire, which had burned its way up from the ground floor to the sixth and seventh floors by feeding on the building's thick cork insulation.

She is getting above her station and needs to be knocked back.

A baby rhino is still a formidable beast, so that needs to be knocked out as well.

When Whitney asked a woman who took out a mortgage on an apartment in Priory Hall what she wanted to happen, she replied: "I think it needs to be knocked to the ground".

Is there a risk of glossing over problems – the doors to equality that still need to be knocked down so to speak – by focusing too much on what has already changed?

The schools were built under the controversial private finance initiative – PFI – by the Labour/Liberal Democrat administration at Holyrood, and there's now even talk that some of them may need to be knocked down and rebuilt.

He needs to be knocked off his pedestal!

Even she knows he needs to be knocked on his ass.