Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was playing with his fist inside a glass jar , banging it on the ground then licking it . |
| 3 | If it does catch it , it knocks it to the ground and then grabs its throat in its strong jaws , killing it by suffocation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He and Buccleuch then went to Hector of Hardlaw 's house and burned it to the ground . |
| 6 | After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’ |
| 7 | Did he tear an apple off the tree and smash it to the ground ? |
| 8 | Corbett undid his cloak and dropped it on the ground . |
| 9 | Or if you spread it on the ground you could study it like tea-leaves and read the future there . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me , ’ said Ali , ‘ why do they bring their filth before us and spread it on the ground like raiment ? ’ |
| 11 | Put it on the ground and back up . ’ |
| 12 | Got big stones out the big garden and he , what he 'd to do , put it on the ground and then he like this with his paw , see ? |
| 13 | And you ken they used to lift it off and put it in the ground . |
| 14 | all it was was a box really , a box which you could get off a , a , a machine and dump it on the ground , erm the idea came from , from er I think dustcarts really , where , where you could sort of tip them up and , and they 'd empty , and that , that was this early thought on it er |
| 15 | Without a word , he took the staff I 'd been using , drove it into the ground with his sledge hammer , secured it with guy ropes and tied a washing line for me from it to the Land Rover . |
| 16 | Wyn-rajathuk shook the pouch , then banged it on the ground , then struck it against his shoulders ; he chanted softly as he made the rhythmic movements , and the words were nonsense words . |
| 17 | For them , they played it on the ground , and so their forwards could get to the ball … or pressure the defence for a back pass , or a throw in . |
| 18 | The most notable of these was the occasion when faced alone by an escaped lion she single-handedly wrestled it to the ground and |
| 19 | She rummaged in the shed for the fork and emerged even more tousled and grumpy to spike it into the ground with the wish that it was Leo 's indifferent back ! |
| 20 | A yurt is comfortable and a wooden floor raises it from the ground . |
| 21 | Then he pulled the mask off his face and threw it on the ground . |
| 22 | He withdrew it and threw it on the ground . |
| 23 | Moses ' staff changed into a snake when Aaron threw it to the ground before Pharaoh . |
| 24 | Firing the shutter can be equally basic , by mounting a lever on the card camera box and even pulling it from the ground by separate line . |
| 25 | ‘ Doing what I can to help it off the ground . ’ |
| 26 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 27 | ‘ You landed it on the ground ! |
| 28 | ‘ I was , ’ he told her , snatching the blanket from his shoulder and spreading it on the ground . |
| 29 | I mean I 'm not , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not one of these formal you know want 's to everything but the idea of this is that we go we get it off the ground and then the management committee take over and run it , it will hopefully have two parish representatives , wo n't be overcommitted by being you know constantly hectored and badgered by people saying this is your ground . |
| 30 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |