Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see I would like to see people at the end of this programme to have some idea , not just of fancy figures in the air , but of practical effects that will affect them on the ground . |
| 2 | Afterwards , when I continued to sob as children do , she would order me to stop or she would ‘ stomp me into the ground ’ . |
| 3 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |
| 4 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 5 | Or if this is the whim of some trouble-stirring witch , you must beat her to the ground and punish her . |
| 6 | It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way . |
| 7 | Pick any two young men ye fancy and by God I 'll work them into the ground , so I will ! ’ |
| 8 | It is a rare book that can keep me on the ground reading when the weather is good , but that is just what this little publication did . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'll think everything on the ground floor is normal . |
| 10 | ‘ They 're all over us in the air , and we ca n't stop them on the ground . |
| 11 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 12 | Not in an evil way at all , but if you gave him half a chance he 'd hammer you into the ground and stamp on you . |
| 13 | He rushed towards her so violently that Miss Fogerty put out her hands to grasp his shoulders before he should butt her to the ground . |
| 14 | As for Dr Hate , poor soul , he can be sorely tried , as when immigrants demand their own schools , parliament , laws and the right to hunt and slay their critics , but he does not hate anyone on the grounds of faith or race . |
| 15 | Where they 'd steal your children if you did n't bolt them to the ground ! ’ |
| 16 | But do n't drive yourself into the ground . |
| 17 | So they do n't bother having scarecrows this time of year cos they do n't see in do n't put anything in the ground ! |
| 18 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 19 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 20 | And if we did if we were to consider that you we 'd refuse you on the grounds that it was done without permission , you 'd have a perfect legitimate right to appeal above our heads and the Department of the Environment would rule against you could rule against us as they did with Mr Crendon |
| 21 | As Clarissa might wake up and cry , it would be better if Zoe would wheel her around the grounds in her buggy , just for half an hour or so , if she did n't mind . |
| 22 | And who can deny them on the grounds of professionalism , when the five rings of the Olympic movement is in danger of becoming a three-ring circus ? |
| 23 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |
| 24 | 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 . |