Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 2 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
| 3 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |
| 4 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 5 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
| 6 | The bloodied torso of what had been Balor lay twitching on the ground , moving clumsily , trying to pull itself along the ground , like a monstrous beetle which has been turned on its shelly back and can not right itself . |
| 7 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 8 | I 've already explained to you how I 've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview . |
| 9 | The father jumped out of his car and began to run to where his son had thrown himself to the ground . |
| 10 | She wanted to fling herself to the ground , to lie there with her body pressed against the purple glory . |