Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't even have to hit them off the ground . |
| 2 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 3 | You see I would like to see people at the end of this programme to have some idea , not just of fancy figures in the air , but of practical effects that will affect them on the ground . |
| 4 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 5 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 6 | she 's walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground ! |
| 7 | Chasing prey through the tree-tops is much more hazardous than pursuing them along the ground , as this raccoon-hunting puma is discovering ( below ) . |
| 8 | Now we , we come out with plants and push them into the ground straight away do n't we ? |
| 9 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 10 | To buy some guided missiles and to hide them in the ground , |
| 11 | pegged them into the ground and marked |
| 12 | Before he was very , very bored , no challenges for him , nothing to do , erm , this guy 's been at director level , er , trouble-shooting for large abattoirs , going in and sorting problems out , and picking them off the ground , so he 's had loads of challenges , erm , the company 's just so slow for him . |
| 13 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |
| 14 | We removed the tags from our shirt fronts , put them on the ground and stepped backward . |
| 15 | Put them in the ground , and up they come . |
| 16 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 17 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 18 | Pick any two young men ye fancy and by God I 'll work them into the ground , so I will ! ’ |
| 19 | You will need a rope to lower them to the ground as they are heavy — throwing them down is dangerous . |
| 20 | Instead of handing your valuables or bag to him or her , drop them on the ground between you . |
| 21 | Disgusted with their treatment , the two players tore off their shirts and threw them to the ground in full view of the royal box . |
| 22 | They just wiped the cities out completely , raised them to the ground , but there were still people that survived it . |
| 23 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're all over us in the air , and we ca n't stop them on the ground . |
| 25 | The next second the table knocked them to the ground and we all fell on top of each other . |
| 26 | The train stopped , doors slammed , a man further up the line lifted out two suitcases and placed them on the ground . |
| 27 | To keep them off the ground ? |
| 28 | They started doing ‘ breakdown ’ [ lifting the boys above their heads and dropping them on the ground ] . |
| 29 | Rebecca ( 3.10 ) rolled them along the ground . |
| 30 | These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground . |