Example sentences of "[noun prp] to [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | The masked four-man gang burst into her house , knocked Mrs Beckett to the ground and threatened her , her husband Leo and a woman dinner guest . |
| 2 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 3 | McLean understandably took offence , whacked Bradshaw to the ground and proceeded to stomp on his head and chest . |
| 4 | Even while Dick was lowering Martin to the ground , he had his head turned in the direction of the dark blur standing out against the night and it was only a matter of seconds before he raised himself and his gun towards it . |
| 5 | Leaving it , they marched to Hastings , to find it deserted and on fire ; in retribution for this ‘ scorched earth policy ’ they burnt Rye to the ground . |
| 6 | And he got to his feet , skin white beneath his little beard and his brown eyes desperate , and swept the Virgin Mary to the ground , where she failed to break . |
| 7 | He lowered the horse 's left foreleg and came back to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 8 | FitzAlan dismounted and reached up to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 9 | Whipple insisted upon seeing Looking Glass , and as Bird Alighting returned to his chief 's lodge , a civilian suddenly shot a watching Nez Perce to the ground . |
| 10 | Edward would have hurried troops south and burnt Woodstock to the ground . |
| 11 | According to police reports , he threw Lynn to the ground and kicked and punched her . |
| 12 | We got to our seats exactly on kick off , and made our way from Winchester to the ground via Marwell zoo ( amongst other local attractions ) . |
| 13 | Whitlock knocked Mobuto to the ground in the split-second before a bullet smashed into the wall behind them . |
| 14 | She had thrown Luke to the ground , herself on top of him , and when the yelling and the thudding and the terrible , high-pitched howling of collective terror had been over , when the cavalry had charged through the crowd like a scythe through a cornfield and silence such a silence had fallen , she had opened her eyes and seen blood everywhere , in her hair and her hands , all over the stupefied , half-suffocated child . |
| 15 | They pushed WPC Sarah Pengelley to the ground , but she chased them and retrieved jewellery worth £5,500 which they dropped as they fled . |