Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I went to the front of the house and saw the dogs catch up with him and knock him to the ground . |
| 4 | In a flash , Mait backhanded Ace across the jaw , knocking her to the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ He kicked and punched her , knocking her to the ground , shouting abuse at her , ’ said Mr Wynn , ‘ He gave her a very hard blow to the nose which caused it to bleed profusely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hoc 's puny shoulders and bowed head reminded the furious Corsican suddenly of his own helplessness in the face of the unreasoning demands from Paris , and without warning he struck out at Hoc with his free hand , knocking him to the ground . |
| 8 | A terrier man drives his quad bike into a protestor , knocking him to the ground . |
| 9 | He claimed that Mr Maltby lunged at him so he punched him , knocking him to the ground . |
| 10 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 11 | The vagrant headbutted him , driving him to the ground . |
| 12 | His phobia had spread to his grooms when Raimundo 's even crueller predecessor had broken the leg of a grey filly , hurling it to the ground for branding , and the following day he had died of snake bite . |
| 13 | If it does catch it , it knocks it to the ground and then grabs its throat in its strong jaws , killing it by suffocation . |
| 14 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 15 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 16 | Then he goes forward , as he must , to meet Esau himself , ‘ bowing himself to the ground seven times ’ as he goes . |
| 17 | When God appeared to Abraham in the guise of three strangers in need of hospitality , Abraham greeted them by bowing himself to the ground once ( 18.2 ) . |
| 18 | Jazzbeaux caught her behind the head with a steelheel , and dropped her to the ground . |
| 19 | The lion immediately jumps on him and forces him to the ground . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She runs away but it bears down and casts her to the ground . |
| 22 | Or if this is the whim of some trouble-stirring witch , you must beat her to the ground and punish her . |
| 23 | Elizabeth gave him a push , which almost toppled him to the ground ! |
| 24 | Carl Glenn , a commission investigator , describing events in El Chorrillo , a poor , primarily Black neighbourhood located near the Panamanian Defense Force headquarters , where 10,000 were made homeless , said : US troops bombed the community , shelled it with heavy artillery , strafed it and finally burned it to the ground . |
| 25 | He and Buccleuch then went to Hector of Hardlaw 's house and burned it to the ground . |
| 26 | After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’ |
| 27 | Did he tear an apple off the tree and smash it to the ground ? |
| 28 | ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw . |
| 29 | He threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |
| 30 | Felix threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |