Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] to the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 2 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 3 | Jazzbeaux caught her behind the head with a steelheel , and dropped her to the ground . |
| 4 | Elizabeth gave him a push , which almost toppled him to the ground ! |
| 5 | Carl Glenn , a commission investigator , describing events in El Chorrillo , a poor , primarily Black neighbourhood located near the Panamanian Defense Force headquarters , where 10,000 were made homeless , said : US troops bombed the community , shelled it with heavy artillery , strafed it and finally burned it to the ground . |
| 6 | He and Buccleuch then went to Hector of Hardlaw 's house and burned it to the ground . |
| 7 | ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw . |
| 8 | He threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |
| 9 | Felix threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |
| 10 | Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons . |
| 11 | ‘ It hauled me to the ground with a thump and started mauling me on the back and neck . ’ |
| 12 | Disgusted with their treatment , the two players tore off their shirts and threw them to the ground in full view of the royal box . |
| 13 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 14 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 15 | A row erupted and when they reached Craylands he threw her to the ground and blasted her twice with a shotgun . |
| 16 | He attacked her and threw her to the ground before turned his attention to the pub , picking up pool balls and throwing them at bottles of spirits behind the bar . |
| 17 | He threw her to the ground when she stood between him and his computer terminal one morning at 3am . |
| 18 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 19 | In a violent struggle , the policeman found it necessary to unscrew the man 's wooden leg as he wrestled him to the ground , striking him across the head with his truncheon . |
| 20 | The pack leader grabbed the first policeman from behind and wrestled him to the ground , knocking his revolver from his grip . |
| 21 | They threw him to the ground and beheaded him in front of his son . |
| 22 | She watched as Luke fought his own anger and then half threw him to the ground . |
| 23 | The most notable of these was the occasion when faced alone by an escaped lion she single-handedly wrestled it to the ground and |
| 24 | Moses ' staff changed into a snake when Aaron threw it to the ground before Pharaoh . |
| 25 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
| 26 | They just wiped the cities out completely , raised them to the ground , but there were still people that survived it . |
| 27 | The next second the table knocked them to the ground and we all fell on top of each other . |
| 28 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 29 | The policemen knocked him to the ground and kicked the life out of him . |
| 30 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |