Sentence examples for was almost knocked from inspiring English sources

It began with a false start and part of the way around the course one of the medallists was almost knocked into the sea by another competitor.

Anwar was almost knocked down by television crews jostling to get near him as he arrived at the Kuala Lumpur high court for the start of trial.

And when I used it for the first time, in my hotel room, I was almost knocked over by what I can only describe as a physical memory of my father.

I stopped noticing bacon in restaurant cooking a long time ago, but I was almost knocked on my back by the intensity of the spicy, smoky bacon XO sauce that lifts a beet salad to a higher plane of awesomeness.

He sticks in a double McTwist, but it was all a little ragged round the edges and a couple of times he was almost knocked off his feet … 6.25pm GMT Hirano scores 93.50!

Back to cops: When the mounted-police stable in the Squadron A Armory, on East Ninety-fourth Street, was closed, in 1966, a woman (it was my wife) alighting from a Madison Avenue bus at twilight was almost knocked flat by a riderless police horse, stirrups flying, which came wildly past her on its way home to its old barn.

So I've taken a bite, and then another, and I'm almost knocked flat by the essence of late summer.

The dinghy nearly sinks, they're almost swept away by the current, then once aboard Rouge is almost knocked out by the sealing wheel of a falling hatch.

A few times, we were almost knocked over by children dashing up and down stairs or pushy adults trying to beat everyone else to the buffet line.

For example, in four unconnected incidents, leading characters are almost knocked down after dark by cyclists speeding along the pavement without lights.

7.53pm GMT 90+3 min: Liverpool are almost knocked out with the last kick of the game, the freshly-introduced Di Natale thwacking just over after a lovely one-two!