Example sentences of "[noun] on [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a man who perhaps gave to all tube buskers indiscriminately , without even looking at them , for he tossed a 5P piece on to the ground as he strode past . |
| 2 | Before he could reach out and stab him as he planned , and then kill his companion too , and with support from his companions , seize the cannon himself , he heard a scream of pain behind him and realised that another of his fellow fighters had fallen from the ring fence on to the ground . |
| 3 | In his rear mirror he watched his father struggle with the doors and manhandle the basket on to the ground . |
| 4 | The elder among them opened his sack and spilled berries of many different kinds on to the ground . |
| 5 | He does this gravely , perhaps fearing — with some justification from what I can see — that the whole thing might collapse like a car in a Laurel and Hardy movie , falling absolutely fiat on to the ground in its component parts . |
| 6 | In very light cross winds there is always the possibility of dropping a wing on to the ground and swinging badly . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 8 | Piers carelessly tossed the newspaper on to the ground , then stretched out his long legs on the coffee-table , linking his fingers on his stomach . |
| 9 | The ice was beginning to melt , and she could hear the drip of water from her ice-cold slit on to the ground . |
| 10 | Airport director Carlos Saruca Salgado said the jet broke in two , spilling passengers on to the ground and a fire broke out in the rear of the fuselage . |
| 11 | His eyes turned up so that only the whites were left and he made an ugly sound deep in his throat , then he went forward , full-face on to the ground . |
| 12 | Throwing the seat-cover of waxed taffeta from the box on to the ground , von Keller shouted ‘ It 's the Emperor 's carriage — It 's mine ! ’ |
| 13 | The air ripped apart , a dying Russian falling like a rag doll on to the ground beside him . |
| 14 | As the nun passed Kelly 's table , she knocked the remains of a glass of port on to the ground . |
| 15 | She glared at him furiously and threw the bag on to the ground in uncaring fury . |
| 16 | ‘ Bouncing off the sides or front on to the ground , being hit by other children , or just falling awkwardly while on the inflatable accounted for most of the injuries , ’ says the report . |