Sentences with phrase «knock about»

This is «End of the pier at Brighton» knock about stuff... but English Law can be a bit «colourful».

If there is anything to knock about Titan Souls, it may be that it just doesn't last long enough or have anything to draw you back after completing it.

According to the bank's forecasts, the precipitous decline in the price of oil is expected to knock about a third of a percentage point off of Canada's GDP this year.

My one knock about the stocks is that the dividend growth is relatively slow at a compound annual growth rate of about 7.5 % and 5.0 % in the last 10 years and 5 years, respectively.

On an income portfolio yielding 4.5 %, Baskin says the higher taxes on U.S. dividends can knock about 1.25 % off your returns.

The other knock about going the route of the Reverse Mortgage over the Conventional loan in some people's opinions is that Reverse Mortgages are too expensive.

The only thing I can really knock about the keyboard — so far — is how the palm of my hand sometimes hit the trackpad and sent my cursor flying.

Combined, the federal and state incentives can knock about $ 10,000 off the price of a Bolt, bringing its price down to a more palatable $ 27,495.

The Mazda6 is one of only two midsize sedans that offers a manual transmission, and if you choose to do your own shifting, you can knock about $ 1,000 off of the price of a Sport or Touring version.

The Exorcist's Regan happened upon the devil himself when she took a whirl on a Ouija board so, you never know, you might meet a spirit who knows a spirit whose brother used to knock about with Lars.

Those jets catch up with the more lazily drifting star smoke and knock it about, which may help explain the weird shapes.

Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and other atoms knock about in nebulas, sometimes freely and sometimes bound up with ice and dust.

Hard to judge anything in the knock about games.

Even a 5 percent drop in demand for fuel in those countries would knock about 325,000 bpd from global crude oil consumption.

Since the beginning of the week, the selloff has knocked about $ 6.6 billion off of Netflix's (NFLX) market cap, and its decline clearly has to do with more than just market volatility.

One of the major knocks about «The Force Awakens» was that stormtrooper leader Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) had very little screen time.

When he was 12, he and a pal packed up their old pirogue (literally...) dog, and.22 rifle, a few stores and camping supplies, and their parents were fine with the pair of them taking off in the boat for a week or ten days of knocking about the bayous.

It's still knocking about, not least of all in the halls of the current Administration in Washington.

Finding it locked, he broke the door, threw out the objects of worship, and knocked them about to become rid of this terror also.

Perhaps this reflects one of the problems with having revisions of revisions knocking about.

When an opportunity knocked about a year ago, he and Sue began the Lighthouse Bar & Restaurant just north of Kralendijk.

You all know I'm weak when it comes to a cup of hot cocoa but for everyday drinking a cup of spicy chai in the afternoon not only curbs that sweet craving that seems to always come knocking about 3:00 pm but it also gives a bit of a caffeine pick me up during the part of the day where I really could use it.

This deal has been knocking about for months.

The likes of Lotus, Brabham, and Cooper all built cars for it and with so many knocking about, it's ended up being a pretty popular category in historic racing.

As is so often the case, the inclusion of Fernando Torres sums everything up, his presence in Brazil only really justified by the fact that, well, he was pretty good when they started winning things, and he's been knocking about ever since.

If you're a die - hard Ferrari fan and have around # 130,000 knocking about, you could own a very significant piece of F1 history as the motorhome Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello used whilst at Ferrari between the 2001 - 2005 seasons has cropped up for sale.

So while I can understand the likes of Mathi9eu Flamini and Calum Chambers talking about our recent FA cup glories I would like the boss to sit them down and inject a bit of urgency in the squad and make sure there is no complacency knocking about.

In an era, once again, of aggressively offensive full backs (thank you Dani Alves) and with very few defensive superstars on the level of Bonucci or Hummels knocking about, deploying a midfield battler seems the smart option.

40: Stoke are knocking it about in midfield, but West Brom are so, so organised.

No one recognised him when he came in, he knocked about 10 years off with that haircut!

I think he was a bit impetious to prove a point as he is a front foot defender, but after Carroll knocked him about he soon learnt that the Premier League is a step up from Holland / Mexico / Colombia and that he can't always use force against an opponent.

No, the worry is not that baby will be knocked about, as an unborn little one is safely stowed away in mom's uterus.

A new round of property - tax bills shows Trump again received a school - tax exemption reserved for those making $ 500,000 or less a year, knocking about $ 304 off his bill.

Labour politicians are being knocked about in the Commons, and in every broadcast studio into which they go, because their answer to the obvious question, «What would you do?»

After all, we've been knocking about in the polls at between roughly 35 and 40 per cent - enough not to guarantee a Conservative majority, but certainly to suggest a Cameron premiership.

Usually, the spins are constantly knocked about by random collisions and stray magnetic fields.

There are interesting ideas knocking about inside the film, including that electricity is also a form of magic and that sometimes the wisest thing to do with power is to reject it.

Amber waves of grain, waving sunlit flags, and Midwestern boys playing baseball are what our heroes are fighting for: New York City and its liberal stongholds, not so much (an early scene finds asteroid chunks knocking about the Big Apple's skyscrapers, scaring and / or crushing jive - talking city folk like Eddie Griffin's bike messenger).

Among the many important lessons in Diane Ravitch's new book, «The Death and Life of the Great American School System,» this one keeps knocking about in my head: «Reformers imagine that it is easy to create a successful school, but it is not.

I don't care how comfy crocs are for knocking about at home - I'm not wearing them either!

The more muscular V - 6 knocks about a second off the 0 - to -60-mph time (now estimated at just under eight seconds) but matches the fuel economy of the old engine.

But the Twingo GT always feels like a small car, especially on motorways where it gets knocked about by crosswinds, whereas other cars in this sector feel more grown up than you'd expect.

Most of us lead lives of quiet desperation, knocked about every so often by rude shocks or lifted up by brief, brilliant joys.

There are a few different types of eBook formats knocking about.

But for some reason the phrase «keep your powder dry» keeps knocking about in my head.

We thought it would simply be ripped apart, but our rabbit enjoyed knocking it about and chewing the hay poking out the sides.

While there were no sharks knocking about that day I was lucky enough to see cuttlefish, manta rays and some incredibly vivid fish and coral.

The first time I suffered a bug was about 15 minutes in when a Giant knocked me about 200 feet into the sky!

The focus on climbing, whether that's clambering unstable monuments or holding on to grassy fur for dear life, plays almost identically in both games (that's not always a good thing) and both heroes are honourable crash test dummies when it comes to getting knocked about.

It just feels like it could have done with a lot more work before release, which is odd considering early builds of it were knocking about two years ago.