I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
knock on/at the door (= hit it with your hand to make someone open it )
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Who's that knocking at the door?
knock/beat sb unconscious
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Levin was knocked unconscious by the impact.
knocked out cold (= hit on the head so that you became unconscious )
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You were knocked out cold .
knock/throw sb off balance
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The blow was hard enough to knock him off balance.
pull down/knock down/tear down a building
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All the medieval buildings were torn down.
put/knock sb out of a competition (= defeat someone so that they are no longer in a competition )
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They put us out of the competition in the semi-final last year.
throw/knock/push etc sb off-balance
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The sudden movement of the ship knocked them both off balance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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I've hinted at it, but never liked to tell him that I used to get knocked about .
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Some of the canals we crossed smelled like open sewers, and the odor would just about knock you out.
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There's quite a few of them knocking about .
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Being knocked about to a certain extent.
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Some were trampled by horses and others knocked about by staffs and swords in the fight at Worcester.
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But each and every time my body temperature shoots up, my gut twists, my heart knocks about in my chest.
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Most of the people I knock about with are in the union.
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I do not enjoy being knocked about by scoffing and mocking.
around
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He just knocked around with some very funny looking women.
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The apartment never seemed more cramped with just the two of us knocking around in it.
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Peter: On Saturday I knock around with me mates.
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And after knocking around for a decade he came to rest at his alma mater.
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It would have been inconceivable for exchange control to be tossed around and knocked around in Cabinet.
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Like Jitters, she had knocked around the world a bit and wound up in Dead Rat.
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Each new copy must be made from raw materials, smaller building blocks knocking around .
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Because of all the rubber stuff, Malcolm had magazines like Rubber Monthly knocking around .
back
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I saw her knock back a few glasses but never saw her tight!
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He responded with courage and knocked back the load of special interests trying to weaken efforts to improve air quality.
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Lightning split the night and the daemon was knocked back .
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A small dapper gentleman two seats away knocked back a shot of something and exhaled an invisible sweet cloud.
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She was out of control, she said, knocking back up to ten cups of coffee a day.
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He's spending an afternoon in Barcelona, knocking back beer on some one else's account.
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There were about a dozen writers in hospitality, most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff.
down
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Fifteen seconds earlier he had been knocked down and lay on the canvas as the referee counted just short of a knockout.
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To be knocked down by the boom of a sailing vessel was so banal as to be embarrassing.
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The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down .
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Boston was also a classic example of the media's ability to build up and then knock down .
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Read in studio A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager.
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Lane was running when he was knocked down , and continued to churn forward.
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He was knocked down by a car when he was 4.
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If the round could knock down the target, it could knock down a man.
off
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I have always been able to knock off twenty years.
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Everyone else appeared to have some sort of credit card that knocked off up to 25 percent.
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She could have knocked off a thousand words on the pocket combs alone.
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So this is knocked off her £112.55 leaving her with £99.90 to pay.
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Bluechel, unharmed, fled the scene, a bullet knocking off his cap as he ran.
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Against Kent he opened with Jack Hobbs, and the pair knocked off the 96 required to win in 32 minutes.
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They need to figure out how to make a reasonable profit and knock off the greed.
out
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Not only do you have to find it, but you may have to knock out the retaining plug.
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Moorer lost the crown when he was knocked out by George Foreman.
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The Anarak Adventure state that if you are not completely knocked out by the finished product there will be no charge!!
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There was a three-inch gash in his head, which suggested at first that he had been knocked out and drowned.
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However, the fail out alarm had been knocked out and the intercom was working badly.
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When you hit them, you knock out their spindly legs and their big bodies come flying right through your windshield.
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He was knocked out in a brawl at a Hollywood restaurant, suffering a broken jaw and three shattered teeth.
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People come to see people get knocked out .
over
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If they're knocked over , the paraffin leaks and ignites, causing what firefighters say are some of the worst fires.
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The flag-staff was repeatedly knocked over , and finally a boarding-pike was used.
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Last night's jam-jars, with their stubs of candle, had been knocked over .
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All the crews of the after guns were knocked over by the concussion, and bled from the nose or ears.
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An argument broke out in the crowded pub after some drink was knocked over and Mr Brown tried to defuse the situation.
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It then truly or falsely spun through the air and knocked over all the pins your luck and skill permitted.
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My glass was amongst those that had been knocked over , and as a result it was now empty.
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A stove of red-hot coals had been knocked over .
together
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The skeleton of a Ferris wheel loomed; shooting galleries and hoopla stalls were being knocked together .
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It brings to mind the ludicrous feud between Liam Gallagher and Robbie Williams, who need their silly heads knocking together .
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This caused much grumbling and many heads were knocked together just to remind everybody who was boss.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bang/knock sb's heads together
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He caught hold of the two nearest him and knocked their heads together, kicked two more and grabbed the ringleaders.
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She'd just box a few ears, knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries, and chase them off.
beat/knock the (living) daylights out of sb
knees knocking (together)
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Years later, Ogwen apprenticeship having been served, we began to aspire to their routes, knees knocking at our effrontery.
knock/beat sb/sth into a cocked hat
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Cavalli had no difficulty knocking the work of other composers into a cocked hat.
knock/blow sb's socks off
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And yet the correlations just knock my socks off...
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So, he popped down to my office, stuck this demo on the turntable and it just blew my socks off.
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The current crop of non-Windows databases can knock the socks off their predecessors.
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This in-your-face marketing could be forgiven if the food absolutely knocked your socks off.
knock/hit sb for six
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He'd done it again, she realised in amazement - with just a few choice words he'd knocked her for six .
knock/lick/get sb/sth into shape
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A lot of similar stories, people just wanting to get back into shape , get their games together.
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And backs off quick, before the long-suffering pimp shows up, and knocks the girl into shape with his jewelled fists.
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His replacement, former sales manager Nils Sontag, never had enough time to lick the company into shape .
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Lionesses lick their cubs into shape and life.
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Nevertheless an heroic effort is being made to lick Expo into shape before Easter Monday.
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The first two hours knock us into shape , however, as we battle with the boulder-strewn approach to Condoriri.
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With the BaByliss BodyToner Plus you can treat yourself to wonderful massages and get back into shape at the same time.
knock/lift etc sb off their feet
knock/throw sb for a loop
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His next question totally knocked me for a loop . He said, "So what makes you think you're good enough to get into law school?"
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His response really threw me for a loop .
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Joanna totally threw me for a loop .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'Mattie?' called Jerry, knocking on the door.
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Cheap gasoline will make your engine knock .
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Critics knocked his latest film for its portrayal of women.
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Hey, don't knock it! It's the only suit I've got!
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I waited a moment, then knocked again.
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It's hard to knock Gordon because he always works so hard.
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Lula knocked at the back door and he appeared, dressed in pyjamas.
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One of the movers knocked the sofa against a doorway.
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She knocked me with her elbow as she passed.
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She turned and ran, knocking into bystanders as she went.
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Some movie reviewers seem to knock every picture they see.
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The heavy video camera knocked against his hip as he walked.
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Would you mind knocking before you come in?
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You should knock before you come in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After I had rung several more times and knocked at the door, I heard hesitant footsteps.
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And he pushed Philip, knocking the polythene bag of grain out of his hand.
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But former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan was knocked out of the event with a blown engine on his Vauxhall Nova.
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Even knock out a mouthful of teeth?
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I looked around and I hit her such a bloody fourpenny one that I knocked her flying.
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It was a pity perhaps that the car had not knocked her down.
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Yet no one who knew the man disputes that Robey might well have knocked down the self-proclaimed king of rock & roll.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hard
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He took hard knocks at two board meetings in June and August, and carried the discouraging words home to his father.
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Sometimes a hard knock in the head can clear out the cobwebs.
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He was a man of course, accustomed to hard knocks , not exactly cynical, but not dreamy-eyed.
■ VERB
answer
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Wiping her floury hands, Mrs Beavis answered the knock .
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Ruestman died from a single shot to his heart after answering a knock at the front door of his mobile home.
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I thought you'd heard me answer his knock on the door as soon as you went in there.
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Amazed residents who answered his frantic knock on the door threw water over him.
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It might be a burst of bullets through the door as I answer their knock .
hear
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After a while, he heard a tentative knock at the door and looked up.
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When he heard the knock , he thought it was Barnabas scratching.
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He heard a knock at the door.
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It is Monday morning and I hear a knock on the door.
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Just then he heard a knock at his door, Randolph wondered who it could be.
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And this man ensconced in his warm living room with a fireplace hears a knock at the door.
take
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Wallace took a knock and looked like he was ready to come off after about 75 mins.
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He took hard knocks at two board meetings in June and August, and carried the discouraging words home to his father.
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Micky Hazard took a knock at Newcastle and will have a late check.
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Within the legal container of marriage, the idealization and illusion so characteristic or the in-love state can take a nasty knock .
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If that happened, however, confidence would take another knock .
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Wilkinson has battled hard and taken a lot of knocks this season.
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The blow was so crippling because confidence had already taken quite a few knocks .
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To succeed in this sport you be prepared to take the knocks .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bang/knock sb's heads together
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He caught hold of the two nearest him and knocked their heads together, kicked two more and grabbed the ringleaders.
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She'd just box a few ears, knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries, and chase them off.
beat/knock the (living) daylights out of sb
knock/beat sb/sth into a cocked hat
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Cavalli had no difficulty knocking the work of other composers into a cocked hat.
knock/blow sb's socks off
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And yet the correlations just knock my socks off...
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So, he popped down to my office, stuck this demo on the turntable and it just blew my socks off.
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The current crop of non-Windows databases can knock the socks off their predecessors.
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This in-your-face marketing could be forgiven if the food absolutely knocked your socks off.
knock/hit sb for six
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He'd done it again, she realised in amazement - with just a few choice words he'd knocked her for six .
knock/lick/get sb/sth into shape
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A lot of similar stories, people just wanting to get back into shape , get their games together.
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And backs off quick, before the long-suffering pimp shows up, and knocks the girl into shape with his jewelled fists.
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His replacement, former sales manager Nils Sontag, never had enough time to lick the company into shape .
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Lionesses lick their cubs into shape and life.
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Nevertheless an heroic effort is being made to lick Expo into shape before Easter Monday.
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The first two hours knock us into shape , however, as we battle with the boulder-strewn approach to Condoriri.
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With the BaByliss BodyToner Plus you can treat yourself to wonderful massages and get back into shape at the same time.
knock/lift etc sb off their feet
knock/throw sb for a loop
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His next question totally knocked me for a loop . He said, "So what makes you think you're good enough to get into law school?"
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His response really threw me for a loop .
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Joanna totally threw me for a loop .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I had just turned out the lights when I heard a knock at the door.
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The only knock against Whitney is his defensive playing.
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We were woken by a frantic knocking at the door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And this man ensconced in his warm living room with a fireplace hears a knock at the door.
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If that happened, however, confidence would take another knock .
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Tatica will have to pound hard with strength she does not have so her knock will be heard.
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There's a knock on the door.
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There was a knock at the door.
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Within the legal container of marriage, the idealization and illusion so characteristic or the in-love state can take a nasty knock .