Example sentences of "[verb] it on the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was playing with his fist inside a glass jar , banging it on the ground then licking it . |
| 2 | Corbett undid his cloak and dropped it on the ground . |
| 3 | Or if you spread it on the ground you could study it like tea-leaves and read the future there . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me , ’ said Ali , ‘ why do they bring their filth before us and spread it on the ground like raiment ? ’ |
| 5 | Put it on the ground and back up . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Groups on the left opposed it on the grounds that IMF policies had damaged developing countries , and on the right it was opposed on the grounds of cost . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin ; Tolkien rejected it on the grounds that public virtue can not be mechanised or formulated . |
| 11 | The Presidium of the Czech National Council approved the draft on Feb. 12 , describing it as " the basic point of departure for the talks … on the final wording of the agreement " , but the Presidium of the Slovak National Council rejected it on the grounds that the Slovak delegation had made too many concessions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then he pulled the mask off his face and threw it on the ground . |
| 14 | He withdrew it and threw it on the ground . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You landed it on the ground ! |
| 17 | ‘ I was , ’ he told her , snatching the blanket from his shoulder and spreading it on the ground . |
| 18 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 19 | : ’ Speaking in London almost a year after becoming Chairman of British Coal , Mr. Clarke said — What we are seeing is a sort of energy arms race , with attempts to justify it on the grounds of guaranteeing security , diversity and competition — but in reality , guaranteeing nothing but higher electricity prices , a rapid abandonment of other fuel reserves , and reliance on as yet unproven overseas resources . ' |
| 20 | Lord Salisbury did offer the Rolls to Clarke , who declined it on the ground that it would put an end to his political career , though he added that he would accept being made a Law Lord . |
| 21 | The engine ran smooth and strong after several hours of running it on the ground . |
| 22 | The male then extrudes a packet of sperm from the genital opening beneath his thorax and deposits it on the ground . |
| 23 | The customers in return sneered at the clothing offered to them , and flung it on the ground . |
| 24 | The teacher then took a length of string , cut it to the height of the child and laid it on the ground on top of the shadow of Leanne . |
| 25 | It is a trick that might just save the life of the bird if a cat has caught it and then placed it on the ground for a moment before starting to pluck it . |
| 26 | Another method of learning to hover with the model facing you is to place it on the ground in this attitude and learn to fly again from scratch . |
| 27 | I felt slightly ashamed that my priority was breakfast , but excused it on the grounds that shock probably induced hunger . |
| 28 | And then I 'll sell it to another store that sells it on the ground floor . ’ |
| 29 | Lying on your left side , resting your head on one arm , bend your right leg and rest it on the ground in front of you . |
| 30 | The decision has caused considerable controversy and been criticized as an excessive response to the problem , but Mayor Jean Baylaucq justified it on the grounds that the bears constituted a threat to animals and humans . |