Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] to the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me ankle hurts every time I put me foot to the ground . |
| 2 | Come Saturday morning I made my way to the ground . |
| 3 | His touch was as she remembered it , warm and gentle , but as he gently returned her foot to the ground she again felt shy — absurdly and ridiculously shy , when she could never remember being so taken by shyness before — and she just had to look away from him while she collected herself . |
| 4 | As she was about to pass the dark shape , something seemed to attach her skirt to the ground , and she had to stop . |
| 5 | Afterwards , she lay there , shattered , as if a long fall had dashed her body to the ground . |
| 6 | A few of the pills slipped from her palm to the ground . |
| 7 | The other party forms the opposition ; criticises the government ; keeps its ear to the ground of public opinion ; and stands ready to form a government should it win the next election . |
| 8 | No one had realized the seriousness of the illness , and the players only heard about his death from newspaper billboards on their way to the ground . |
| 9 | Afrikanerdom is out in force and on its way to the ground … |
| 10 | The donkey threw its rider to the ground in a dozen different , hilarious ways . |
| 11 | Men crying with loud and bitter cries , till the anguish of their souls had opened every pore of the body , and produced a perspiration which fell from their face to the ground . |
| 12 | Before that he was suspended from the national team for a year after a clash with coach Henri Michel , punished for fighting with team-mates at Auxerre and Montpelier and fined for throwing his shirt to the ground at Marseille when substituted . |
| 13 | His anger , when fully aroused , was voiced very quietly , but could forcefully throw people in his presence to the ground . |
| 14 | When the man stepped back he trotted , stretching his neck to the ground . |
| 15 | The French boy nudged Joseph as a tall , white-haired Moi who was obviously the village chieftain slowly descended the stepped tree trunk that led from his hut to the ground . |
| 16 | Epitot nodded , came to himself , and tossed his flare to the ground . |
| 17 | We have entrusted our brother — to God 's merciful keeping , and we now commit his body to the ground : earth to earth , ashes to ashes , dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life , through our Lord Jesus Christ , who died , was buried , and rose again for us . |
| 18 | He hooks his leg forward and sweeps his opponent to the ground , finishing him off with a reverse punch to the head . |
| 19 | Nan Ho came forward as he reached the bottom of the steps , then knelt and touched his head to the ground . |
| 20 | He bent his head to the ground , trying to catch his breath as he listened to the warning bells of the horse-drawn fire engines , heading to the inferno . |
| 21 | As early as 994 Archbishop Sigeric of Canterbury was forced to borrow £115 from Bishop Æscwig of Dorchester to prevent the raiders burning his cathedral to the ground , giving in return an estate in Buckinghamshire . |
| 22 | Benjamin just smiled , raised her white fingers to his lips , kissed them daintily and , like some chivalrous knight , kicked his horse into a canter , almost knocking his would-be-love to the ground . |
| 23 | Now it was Ferreira 's turn to show his frustration , often slamming his racket to the ground in anger as he could only muster 11 points in a set lasting only 20 minutes . |
| 24 | Graham Fearnley keeps his ear to the ground and you never know — he might tell us something . ’ |
| 25 | The good leader has his ear to the ground and will know the stage at which real doubts are growing . |
| 26 | On impulse , he stepped away from the grave , and put his ear to the ground once more . |
| 27 | He saw one of his jobs as keeping his ear to the ground on Blanche 's behalf , trying to catch discontent while it was no more than a distant rumble and to spot which detectives needed encouragement and which a gentle kick up the backside . |
| 28 | He kept his ear to the ground and he spent a lot of time in his office after hours . |
| 29 | Holmes went down on one knee , and put his ear to the ground . |
| 30 | He also throws away too many key phrases : ‘ This Triton of the minnows ’ is a magnificent epithet for Sicinius but it here gets lost and although in the great banishment-speech Mr Dance 's body-language is good ( as he hurls his coat to the ground in fine disdain ) it is significant that the directors resort to an echo-chamber effect on ‘ There is a world elsewhere . ’ |