Example sentences of "themselves [prep] [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campese , scorer of a record 51 Test tries , the most recent against Ireland last weekend , had second thoughts about taking his World Cup winners ' medal into retirement , despite his claim that rugby players are running themselves into the ground . |
| 2 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
| 3 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
| 4 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite the fact that my players ran themselves into the ground . |
| 5 | Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal . |
| 6 | They ran themselves into the ground , ran Chesterfield off the pitch , but they could n't get another goal . |
| 7 | A volley of razor mosquito-bolts impaled themselves on the ground floor . |
| 8 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
| 9 | The British commandos in the Second World War did n't bother to teach their men how to defend themselves on the ground because they felt that , even in an unarmed fight , the chances of survival were minimal once anybody went down . |
| 10 | They came before the tent and prostrated themselves on the ground before following their chief to prison . |
| 11 | Shots slammed into the walls inside the courtyard where the civilians cried and threw themselves on the ground . |
| 12 | The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while . |
| 13 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 14 | Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead . |