Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] into the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we , we come out with plants and push them into the ground straight away do n't we ? |
| 2 | From the outset , McLaren was convinced that Branson wanted only to take the Sex Pistols away from him , ‘ and grind me into the ground ’ . |
| 3 | pegged them into the ground and marked |
| 4 | Afterwards , when I continued to sob as children do , she would order me to stop or she would ‘ stomp me into the ground ’ . |
| 5 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 6 | Zoe 's horse ’ Scrumpy ’ stumbled after a jump catapulting her into the ground . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pick any two young men ye fancy and by God I 'll work them into the ground , so I will ! ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On holiday at my parents ' house in Wales , I locked myself into the ground floor bathroom and swore that one day I would be a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion . |
| 14 | Not in an evil way at all , but if you gave him half a chance he 'd hammer you into the ground and stamp on you . |
| 15 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |
| 16 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 17 | Campese , scorer of a record 51 Test tries , the most recent against Ireland last weekend , had second thoughts about taking his World Cup winners ' medal into retirement , despite his claim that rugby players are running themselves into the ground . |
| 18 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
| 19 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
| 20 | Having decided upon a prefabricated pool , the next stage is to get it into the ground . |
| 21 | But do n't drive yourself into the ground . |
| 22 | I 've already explained to you how I 've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview . |
| 23 | and trample me into the ground . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I was mad with him , could have battered him into the ground I could if I was strong enough . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite the fact that my players ran themselves into the ground . |
| 27 | Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal . |
| 28 | They ran themselves into the ground , ran Chesterfield off the pitch , but they could n't get another goal . |
| 29 | SEX-STARVED women in Japan blame their husbands ' bosses for working them into the ground and leaving them limp and lifeless in the bedroom . |
| 30 | We may even do this through becoming ill , working ourselves into the ground or suppressing our own needs in order to care for others . |