Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switchboard was formed in 1974 out of an alliance between the old Gay Liberation Front office collective , who donated the office , and Gay News , who donated the publicity and energy to get it off the ground . |
| 2 | The whole assembly was then placed on two concrete blocks ( one at each end ) to raise it off the ground . |
| 3 | But how did the , what was puzzling a lot of people how did he manage to get it off the ground and into his pocket . |
| 4 | Only time will tell , but it will require a number of dedicated members to get it off the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ Doing what I can to help it off the ground . ’ |
| 6 | What better way to get it off the ground than by leading an armada of rafts up river , parading before the assembled crowd of onlookers ? |
| 7 | I suspect that , if someone now discovered a substance as addictive and harmful as tobacco , even this Government would be highly unlikely to license it to get it off the ground as a marketable product . |
| 8 | ‘ A big thing ; Edwin was largely responsible for getting it off the ground . |
| 9 | I mean I 'm not , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not one of these formal you know want 's to everything but the idea of this is that we go we get it off the ground and then the management committee take over and run it , it will hopefully have two parish representatives , wo n't be overcommitted by being you know constantly hectored and badgered by people saying this is your ground . |
| 10 | ‘ We hope to get it off the ground very shortly and it will be run in conjunction with the Women 's Hospital . ’ |
| 11 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 12 | idea to get it going and get it off the ground even if you you put your beer on at , well I just thought of couple Boddingtons put their they 're they 're gon na put their , they 're gon na put there 's at a pound a pint . |
| 13 | if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it . |
| 14 | Without a word , he took the staff I 'd been using , drove it into the ground with his sledge hammer , secured it with guy ropes and tied a washing line for me from it to the Land Rover . |
| 15 | In its better forms , such as the Avro 504 and the various Moths , the wooden biplane was almost everlasting and the structure could really only be broken by flying it into the ground . |
| 16 | Having decided upon a prefabricated pool , the next stage is to get it into the ground . |
| 17 | She rummaged in the shed for the fork and emerged even more tousled and grumpy to spike it into the ground with the wish that it was Leo 's indifferent back ! |
| 18 | I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground . |
| 19 | You know I years ago I had a twig you know , an ordinary twig , I stuck it into the ground after three long years , all that was was a stick ! |
| 20 | Expand it and throw it onto the ground on the other side of the wheelbarrow . |
| 21 | Sticking to the fuel sampling routine which had been drummed into him when training three years previously , the pilot filled his fuel tester , examined the colour of the liquid for a tell-tale bluish tinge confirming avgas , checked for bubbles that would indicate the presence of water , sniffed it for avgas aroma , and emptied it onto the ground to check that the sample evaporated rapidly , as uncontaminated fuel would . |
| 22 | Kirov gathered phlegm in his mouth as he strode away , spitting it onto the ground as a gesture of the disgust he felt . |
| 23 | There was still some of the food in the bag , and I dropped some of it onto the ground . |
| 24 | His second followed good work on the right wing by Kelly , he played it infield to Hodge , who passed it along the ground to forresters feet … in the same sort of position as white for the 2nd goal … except facing the touchline . |
| 25 | That was that really … open flood gates … goal 2 … ball over the top for Wallace who went from 25 yds into the right of te area and finished absolutely brilliantly … goal 3 corner from right Strachan talking to the kop asking where to place it … hits it long … comes back to him he hits it it bobbles out to the left edge of the area where Speed hits it along the ground . |
| 26 | get in the buggy and I 'll close this door , where have I put the lock ? , oh it 's not good we 're gon na have to get a new garage door , that one nearly kills me lifting that up , scraping it along the ground , you 're in are you ? , oh very good , two of you in , Richard , come and get in , just a minute where 's your , let me clip you in |
| 27 | If it is not , and the root ball crumbles , you are not going to be able to plant it in the ground without disturbing the roots . |
| 28 | And this earth-wall here is completely flat because of some man-thing fixed behind it in the ground , but I 'm not sure what . " |
| 29 | And you ken they used to lift it off and put it in the ground . |
| 30 | Well I 'm telling you they stuck it they had a sort of flat bottomed cart and they used to stick it in and when they came there they , they lifted it off and stuck it in the ground and it was just similar to that only it was hooped |