Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] to the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 2 | In a flash , Mait backhanded Ace across the jaw , knocking her to the ground . |
| 3 | ‘ He kicked and punched her , knocking her to the ground , shouting abuse at her , ’ said Mr Wynn , ‘ He gave her a very hard blow to the nose which caused it to bleed profusely . |
| 4 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 5 | Hoc 's puny shoulders and bowed head reminded the furious Corsican suddenly of his own helplessness in the face of the unreasoning demands from Paris , and without warning he struck out at Hoc with his free hand , knocking him to the ground . |
| 6 | A terrier man drives his quad bike into a protestor , knocking him to the ground . |
| 7 | He claimed that Mr Maltby lunged at him so he punched him , knocking him to the ground . |
| 8 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 9 | The vagrant headbutted him , driving him to the ground . |
| 10 | His phobia had spread to his grooms when Raimundo 's even crueller predecessor had broken the leg of a grey filly , hurling it to the ground for branding , and the following day he had died of snake bite . |
| 11 | Then he goes forward , as he must , to meet Esau himself , ‘ bowing himself to the ground seven times ’ as he goes . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 14 | Then a blow hit his shoulder , felling him to the ground . |
| 15 | Her trusty crutch found a hidden hole , sending her to the ground , to lie winded but undamaged . |
| 16 | Two days after Christmas at her home in Banbury two men pushed her through her front door … one of them punching and kicking her to the ground . |
| 17 | The pedestrian only slipped off when the motorist turned sharply into a side street , flinging him to the ground . |
| 18 | Both men were making angry gestures and at one point Fernand brandished the crowbar under Gebrec 's nose before flinging it to the ground in a melodramatic gesture of apparent capitulation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He hits the standing man at a point just above the heel , bringing him to the ground . |
| 21 | In certain styles of kung fu , methods of combat are practised for taking someone to the ground with a sweep , called a ‘ take-down ’ . |
| 22 | He offered the pink blossom to his chick , who twirled it in front of her briefly lit face before dropping it to the ground . |
| 23 | ‘ Nor is Edward … ’ continued Louise , shredding the green fronds , sweeping them to the ground . |
| 24 | There seemed to be a weight on her chest , pinning her to the ground and not letting her breathe . |
| 25 | She was suffocating , it was squashing her , pinning her to the ground . |
| 26 | The wounded bird plummeted to earth like a dive-bomber , its beak piercing G. F. Westerby 's chest and pinning him to the ground . |
| 27 | The enraged animal charged into Christopher Rogers , pinning him to the ground . |
| 28 | He sprang up with a cry , and in the same moment the tent collapsed upon him , pinning him to the ground under its heavy folds , and the hammering rain held it there , flattened crushingly over his breast , moulding itself to every feature of his face , so that he was nearly suffocated . |
| 29 | Jurors decided that he assaulted his brother , Robert , 30 , to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life by shooting him , pinning him to the ground and repeatedly hitting him on the head with bottles . |
| 30 | Flattening him to the ground and knocking the wind out of him , it had begun its killing process by throwing a few coils around the tree to anchor itself , and a few more round Laba , pinning his arms to his side . |