I have knocked.

It should have set off an alarm bell, but it didn’t.

He knocked at the door and when the farmer answered he told him what he had just seen.

He was scarcely awake when he heard the knock at the door.

They knocked at the door, and when their stepmother opened it, she exclaimed: "You naughty children, why have you been staying so long in the forest?

There may be, in the physis something which requires that he should knock himself, but that he should be beaten is something different!

Try knocking at the back door if nobody hears you at the front door.

Listen to what the child is saying. If a young child is asking questions about the event, answer them simply without the elaboration needed for an older child or adult.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Let me do it, dear, he said, rapping the knocker vigorously.

To elaborate, we need to ask one crucial question: What is a good speech?

More, in fact: her news thrummed inside my chest as if it were my own.

The clock has just struck four.

Young man, said the angry father from the head of stairs, didn't I hear the clock strike four when you brought my daughter in?

Before long someone knocked. Peter asked who was there, and what he wanted.

It rings alarm bells for several reasons.

But there was no answer when they knocked at the door.

I knocked again and again but there was no answer.

But by the time he sounded the alarm, it may have been too late.

Somebody knocked him on the back.