Example sentences of "[verb] them [verb] [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let them trail on the ground . |
| 2 | As he turned to close the door of the tower behind them , she let them fall to the ground again . |
| 3 | This caused them to sink into the ground until the crossbar was only two inches above the grass . |
| 4 | Later , Provenzano flew over a stolen car and circled while the patrolmen on the ground arrested four black men inside , forcing them to lie on the ground to be checked for weapons . |
| 5 | It is believed the platform of the hoist toppled over the first floor balcony sending them crashing to the ground floor . |
| 6 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 7 | Certainly keeps them going on the grounds that eventually there will you know we 'll be able to say and this is what we believed this long and you know this is what has been proved to be necessary . |
| 8 | He jumped up , pulling the lower branches of the tree down and clipped off stems , letting them fall to the ground . |
| 9 | Dulé passed them and remembered how he had only felt wonder , not this stab of pleasure , when first he saw them sleeping on the ground near Ariel 's cabin that long year ago . |
| 10 | Then he saw them lying on the ground , but not complete clubs , just the heads with their covers on , protruding from a detachable section that could be removed to expose the empty cylinder of the golf-bag . |
| 11 | Leaves danced curlicues on the pavement as the wind ripped them from the plane trees and sent them scurrying along the ground . |
| 12 | He had them erected in the grounds of his house — now council offices . |