Example sentences of "[pron] to the ground " in BNC.
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| 31 | Disgusted with their treatment , the two players tore off their shirts and threw them to the ground in full view of the royal box . |
| 32 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 33 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 34 | The best way to deal with them is to unbalance them , trip them and throw them to the ground . |
| 35 | Where they 'd steal your children if you did n't bolt them to the ground ! ’ |
| 36 | The next second the table knocked them to the ground and we all fell on top of each other . |
| 37 | ‘ Nor is Edward … ’ continued Louise , shredding the green fronds , sweeping them to the ground . |
| 38 | You will need a rope to lower them to the ground as they are heavy — throwing them down is dangerous . |
| 39 | They just wiped the cities out completely , raised them to the ground , but there were still people that survived it . |
| 40 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 41 | The Woman smashing him to the ground and beating at his face . |
| 42 | ‘ Does yer mother know yer out ? ’ shouted one of the lads and then all at once they charged at him and manhandled him to the ground . |
| 43 | The wounded bird plummeted to earth like a dive-bomber , its beak piercing G. F. Westerby 's chest and pinning him to the ground . |
| 44 | Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope . |
| 45 | ‘ I went to the front of the house and saw the dogs catch up with him and knock him to the ground . |
| 46 | Dimly making out figures , he leant forward on his mount , and a volley of fire tore him to the ground . |
| 47 | The vagrant headbutted him , driving him to the ground . |
| 48 | From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground . |
| 49 | Elizabeth gave him a push , which almost toppled him to the ground ! |
| 50 | Walking home from his job one payday , he was set upon by two young men who hit him with a stick , pushed him to the ground and seized his meagre wages . |
| 51 | They would also mingle with unwary humans for spite , selling jewellery and magic cloth at the village fete — when the purchaser leant to pick up the item , the fee would twist his arm and fling him to the ground . |
| 52 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 53 | PCs Thomas McGrath , 45 , and John Milliken , 54 , chased their victim into an alleyway and battered him to the ground . |
| 54 | The pedestrian only slipped off when the motorist turned sharply into a side street , flinging him to the ground . |
| 55 | The plan was simple : run up , jump on to Kong 's back , pull him off the fallen Godzilla , throw him to the ground and then — well , we were n't sure what to do then , but we would think of something . |
| 56 | Then , like lightning , he had dived in with fists flailing , thrown him to the ground , jumped straight on top of him and finished the fight by virtually knocking his brains out . |
| 57 | The policemen knocked him to the ground and kicked the life out of him . |
| 58 | The enraged animal charged into Christopher Rogers , pinning him to the ground . |
| 59 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |
| 60 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |