Example sentences of "them [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 | Chasing prey through the tree-tops is much more hazardous than pursuing them along the ground , as this raccoon-hunting puma is discovering ( below ) . |
| 9 | Rebecca ( 3.10 ) rolled them along the ground . |
| 10 | Later Julian and David took them and stood them along the ground near the climbing frame . |
| 11 | Pick any two young men ye fancy and by God I 'll work them into the ground , so I will ! ’ |
| 12 | pegged them into the ground and marked |
| 13 | The second person carries the stakes and hands them to the third , unpointed ends first , who then pushes them into the ground and fastens the top line to the net with a half-hitch . |
| 14 | SEX-STARVED women in Japan blame their husbands ' bosses for working them into the ground and leaving them limp and lifeless in the bedroom . |
| 15 | Now we , we come out with plants and push them into the ground straight away do n't we ? |
| 16 | Yes , she really adored her dogs and there was a special graveyard for them in the grounds . |
| 17 | Put them in the ground , and up they come . |
| 18 | He went round with some seeds , planting them in the ground and that , but some of them grew and some of them did n't . |
| 19 | To buy some guided missiles and to hide them in the ground , |
| 20 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
| 21 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 22 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 23 | ‘ I just want to bury them in the ground . |
| 24 | she 's walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground ! |
| 25 | PCBs are so difficult to destroy , that Rechem 's emission-monitoring systems are geared to detecting them on the grounds that if you destroy PCBs you destroy everything . |
| 26 | And who can deny them on the grounds of professionalism , when the five rings of the Olympic movement is in danger of becoming a three-ring circus ? |
| 27 | against them on the grounds that they 're they 're crawly |
| 28 | That they 're th No , th I 'm not I 'm discriminating o against them on the grounds that they have legs that do that . |
| 29 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 30 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |