Example sentences of "[pers pn] on the [adj] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunan 's group began loping towards the Rorim , leaving two bodies behind them on the moonlit ground . |
| 2 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 3 | Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs . |
| 4 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 5 | But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such . |