Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the ground [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’ |
| 2 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 3 | Her shoes oozed into the ground and , as the breeze sliced through her light coat , she shivered . |
| 4 | He was saying he was ‘ hard-faced ’ and cited an incident where his girlfriend got attacked in the ground and the man ‘ did n't want to know ’ . |
| 5 | Then a calf mooed nearby , and its mother answered in a deep contralto ; a dog barked , and a cock began to crow , and with a sudden rush of wings , a company of rooks rose from the ground and flew away , making a neat cross-stitch pattern in the sky . |
| 6 | Almost half a million visitors a year come to wander round the grounds or float past in punts on the River Cherwell . |
| 7 | Jinny let the paper fall to the ground and , very carefully , began to colour in the fair hair around Liam Shakespeare 's face . |
| 8 | Paddy Kennedy , an RLP councillor who was himself taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs , said that he had seen Fitt fall to the ground and he had appeared to be on his knees when he was struck by a baton . |
| 9 | In fact , most hunt on the ground and are unlikely to come across birds . |
| 10 | In less sophisticated times , people searching for minerals picked up clues simply by walking over the ground and examining it visually . |
| 11 | And it was then , in the midst of the suffering and chaos round them , as Rachel knelt on the ground and took from David 's case the aerosol that would hopefully save a man 's life , that he suddenly looked across at her . |
| 12 | He has already proved he can win on the ground and he beat Repington five lengths at Huntingdon last week . |
| 13 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told the 2,400 troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 14 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 15 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |
| 16 | The rest of it crashed to the ground and the teachers collapsed in a heap on the floor . |
| 17 | The hall chandelier crashed to the ground and shot sprayed in every direction . |
| 18 | Then it crashed to the ground and died , no explosions , no flames reaching to the sky . |
| 19 | Stiffly , like some crude automaton , Vologsky clambered from the plane 's cockpit , dropped to the ground and began to march towards Major Tzann 's quarters . |
| 20 | The two silent watchers dropped to the ground and stayed there without moving for a long time . |
| 21 | Its frail old shell served little other purpose than to squat on the ground and prevent any adjacent developments from creeping across it . |
| 22 | The move completed , Paige sank to the ground and rested her head back against the rising bulk of a tree . |
| 23 | Another , the scaffold-web spider , rigs a whole series of sticky threads from the branches of a bush down to the ground and hauls each one so tight that if an insect , either walking on the ground or flying a little way above it blunders into one of them , the thread breaks and the victim , stuck to it with glue , is hoisted into the air . |
| 24 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |
| 25 | Many people are now worried about the dangers of the by-products from decomposing waste soaking into the ground and getting into rivers and lakes . |
| 26 | Mains lights are available from good garden centres and d-i-y stores , and the most versatile type for creative garden lighting is a spotlight with a spike that can be pushed into the ground and a head that swivels so that the beam can be adjusted . |
| 27 | He was still trying to identify it when he suddenly felt himself scooped from the ground and hoisted into the air in a wide arc . |
| 28 | While the delay to the start of the flying programme has been much longer than anyone would wish , much more progress has been made in the ground and rig testing than at the comparable stage of any previous project I have been associated with and we are very satisfied indeed with the results that have been obtained so far . |
| 29 | Section fifty four A makes your local plan structure plans extremely important governors on what happens on the ground and it 's for that underlying reason that we find E two unjustified and reasonably repressive and an unreasonable extension of constraint by the county on the freedom of districts in their local plans to choose the geography of their of land allocations . |
| 30 | The guilty one quickly slumped to the ground and her body jerked in all directions . |