Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] to [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 2 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 3 | Then he goes forward , as he must , to meet Esau himself , ‘ bowing himself to the ground seven times ’ as he goes . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 6 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
| 9 | She wanted to fling herself to the ground , to lie there with her body pressed against the purple glory . |
| 10 | Protesting , Geoffrey moved to one side as Bridget lowered herself to the ground . |
| 11 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The father jumped out of his car and began to run to where his son had thrown himself to the ground . |
| 14 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 15 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 16 | Standing on top of the wooden staircase she hurled herself to the ground , landing in a heap at the bottom . |
| 17 | Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead . |