Example sentences of "himself [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he was able to propel himself along the ground ‘ like a gorilla ’ . |
| 4 | At a meeting of local Serbian leaders in Orašac , in mid February , the thirty-six-year-old Djordje Petrović ( Karadjordje ) was asked to lead the rebellion , although legend has it that he twice refused , excusing himself on the ground that his violent temper would make him an unsuitable leader . |
| 5 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 6 | To get the best shots of the Falcon 's descent into an American football stadium Steve set up cameras inside the Hercules plane and attached to the freefallers themselves before positioning himself on the ground . |
| 7 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 8 | Then he goes forward , as he must , to meet Esau himself , ‘ bowing himself to the ground seven times ’ as he goes . |
| 9 | When God appeared to Abraham in the guise of three strangers in need of hospitality , Abraham greeted them by bowing himself to the ground once ( 18.2 ) . |
| 10 | The father jumped out of his car and began to run to where his son had thrown himself to the ground . |
| 11 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 12 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 13 | Sikes quickly tied the rope around the chimney , then began to tie the other end around himself , ready to lower himself to the ground behind the house . |
| 14 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 15 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |