Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bloodied torso of what had been Balor lay twitching on the ground , moving clumsily , trying to pull itself along the ground , like a monstrous beetle which has been turned on its shelly back and can not right itself . |
| 2 | Enticed by the exotic smells issuing from a nearby many-storeyed building , she crossed the threshold to find herself on the ground floor of a gourmet 's paradise . |
| 3 | Whether consciously or unconsciously , she found herself beside the ground where the cottage she had bought with Ryan had once stood . |
| 4 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 5 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 6 | Then he goes forward , as he must , to meet Esau himself , ‘ bowing himself to the ground seven times ’ as he goes . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way . |
| 9 | At a meeting of local Serbian leaders in Orašac , in mid February , the thirty-six-year-old Djordje Petrović ( Karadjordje ) was asked to lead the rebellion , although legend has it that he twice refused , excusing himself on the ground that his violent temper would make him an unsuitable leader . |
| 10 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 11 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 12 | Sikes quickly tied the rope around the chimney , then began to tie the other end around himself , ready to lower himself to the ground behind the house . |
| 13 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She began to yell furiously , then threw herself on the ground , red-faced with rage , stamping her feet and screwing up her eyes . |
| 16 | Shots slammed into the walls inside the courtyard where the civilians cried and threw themselves on the ground . |
| 17 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
| 18 | To get the best shots of the Falcon 's descent into an American football stadium Steve set up cameras inside the Hercules plane and attached to the freefallers themselves before positioning himself on the ground . |
| 19 | Lift yourself off the ground as you go along . |
| 20 | GET YOURSELVES OFF THE GROUND UP ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She wanted to fling herself to the ground , to lie there with her body pressed against the purple glory . |
| 23 | Protesting , Geoffrey moved to one side as Bridget lowered herself to the ground . |
| 24 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |
| 25 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 26 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
| 29 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
| 30 | The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while . |