Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting in the lotus position they jumped into the air using their thighs to propel them off the ground . |
| 2 | These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground . |
| 3 | To keep them off the ground ? |
| 4 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
| 5 | Before he was very , very bored , no challenges for him , nothing to do , erm , this guy 's been at director level , er , trouble-shooting for large abattoirs , going in and sorting problems out , and picking them off the ground , so he 's had loads of challenges , erm , the company 's just so slow for him . |
| 6 | You do n't even have to hit them off the ground . |
| 7 | It 's simply that six legs is the smallest number of legs you can have such that you can take exactly half of them off the ground and not fall over . |
| 8 | My robe billowed , almost lifting me off the ground , and exposed my sunburnt legs to the stinging spray . |
| 9 | It used to lead lead to Station and er I 've seen these two when I 've been walking around , I 've seen them take their head up and lift me off the ground . |
| 10 | We may even do this through becoming ill , working ourselves into the ground or suppressing our own needs in order to care for others . |
| 11 | In certain styles of kung fu , methods of combat are practised for taking someone to the ground with a sweep , called a ‘ take-down ’ . |
| 12 | Just to try & redress the balance here ; - ) I watched the goals on MOTD and I must say that Speed did appear to wrestle someone to the ground ( def. free kick ) . |
| 13 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 14 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 15 | But he was able to propel himself along the ground ‘ like a gorilla ’ . |
| 16 | At a meeting of local Serbian leaders in Orašac , in mid February , the thirty-six-year-old Djordje Petrović ( Karadjordje ) was asked to lead the rebellion , although legend has it that he twice refused , excusing himself on the ground that his violent temper would make him an unsuitable leader . |
| 17 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 18 | To get the best shots of the Falcon 's descent into an American football stadium Steve set up cameras inside the Hercules plane and attached to the freefallers themselves before positioning himself on the ground . |
| 19 | But the UN , which is trying harder than SWAPO probably realised to be an honest broker , had almost nobody on the ground anyway . |
| 20 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 21 | Then he goes forward , as he must , to meet Esau himself , ‘ bowing himself to the ground seven times ’ as he goes . |
| 22 | When God appeared to Abraham in the guise of three strangers in need of hospitality , Abraham greeted them by bowing himself to the ground once ( 18.2 ) . |
| 23 | The father jumped out of his car and began to run to where his son had thrown himself to the ground . |
| 24 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 25 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 26 | Sikes quickly tied the rope around the chimney , then began to tie the other end around himself , ready to lower himself to the ground behind the house . |
| 27 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 28 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |
| 29 | Often such complex layouts lead to immediate confusion , but the manual gets you off the ground with some helpful suggested settings . |
| 30 | It flaps its wings a few times to lift itself off the ground , then simply rises up , using whatever thermals and air currents it comes across . |