Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pron] [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
| 3 | Chris took the chair and I went through the list of things that needed to be done to get us off the ground : a bank account , an address and telephone number somewhere , an eye-catching logo . |
| 4 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |