Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reflex action was to bend and swing round violently , and I was thrown to the ground . |
| 2 | I tried to prevent this , but I was thrown onto the ground and fell onto a sickle . |
| 3 | Still encased in the net , I was dropped on the ground as if I were an old plank . |
| 4 | I was knocked to the ground , and a kind passer-by picked me up and dusted down my soaking clothes as 1 watched Dana walking away into the night . |
| 5 | I was knocked to the ground . |
| 6 | I could smell her scent , very sharp and close , through the fog and dog smells at the foot of the lamp-post where I was sitting on the ground . |
| 7 | I was lying on the ground almost like a dead body . |
| 8 | He was the man she loved , and she felt as if she were floating above the ground . |
| 9 | ‘ And yet , we 're told that you were seen around the grounds of Burleigh yesterday evening . ’ |
| 10 | But suddenly reality was distorted and in her dream she was pulled to the ground and the two of them began digging at her chest with the rakes . |
| 11 | Of how she was lying on the ground , for example ? ’ |
| 12 | He glanced at Nina for support but by this time she was staring at the ground . |
| 13 | Following his directions , it was only a matter of seconds before she was standing on the ground beneath the wreckage . |
| 14 | Marjory was riding near Paisley when her horse stumbled and she was thrown to the ground . |
| 15 | She was thrown to the ground , staggered upright , jumped into a hollow , emerged again to fire her blaster and move on . |
| 16 | The mare shied violently , jumping with a sudden jerk to the left with such force that Lucy 's boots slid from the stirrups and she was thrown to the ground . |
| 17 | Shannon fought against him as hard as she could , but his hands in her hair held her face captive just where he wanted it , and she was pinned to the ground by his weight . |
| 18 | Her back knitted , but doubled over , for after the first weeks when she was laid on the ground from fear of hurting her raw flesh , she had preferred to lie in a hammock , where she had lain curved for weeks on end . |
| 19 | Alice was very nearly asleep when , suddenly , she was sitting on the ground . |
| 20 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 21 | We were lying on the ground in a row , pointing our rifles to our fronts , as he walked past each of us and made us repeat the different orders that we would be given , such as ‘ unload ’ or ‘ cock your weapon ’ . |
| 22 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 23 | They were heavier and more noisy than wood — and quite hard on the tummy when they were pushed into the ground . |
| 24 | Even Sean 's obvious appreciation of her had served mainly to boost her confidence as to how she would look in that other man 's eyes , if by some absolute miracle they should meet him for a moment as they were driving through the grounds of Millfield House . |
| 25 | The cards had nothing on them but apparently meaningless hieroglyphics and they were thrown to the ground to add to the litter that so distresses London Transport . |
| 26 | But they were rebuffed on the grounds that the society was not concerned with clinical research . |
| 27 | That and other systems sales accounted for a whacking 50% of SunExpress revenues last year when it was getting off the ground , with end user sales pegged at just 35% . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I tried to pull the post out but I could n't , it was about six feet long and so it was dragging on the ground . |
| 30 | The branch committee favourably entertained Miss Black 's assistance , but on it being remitted to a general meeting of the Society , it was rejected on the grounds that if the females were organised , their position would be improved as an industry for females , which would result in great accession to their numbers in the printing trade in Edinburgh . " |