Example sentences of "of [verb] [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study aims to describe and analyse how the various actors involved in police policy-making — the Home Office , Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Constabulary , the Home Secretary , the police authorities , pressure and community groups , political parties , the media , as well as the police themselves — interact to produce changes in the style , organisation or operation of policing on the ground . |
| 2 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |
| 3 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 4 | My nine-year-old son recently told me of dreaming of swinging violently in the hammock ( something he frequently does during the summer ) and falling out ( again , a frequent occurrence ) , but instead of landing on the ground he floated , and started a floating dream in which he effortlessly travelled around the garden suspended above the ground . |
| 5 | But it it 's sort of built into the ground apparently so that it 'd be pretty low down . |
| 6 | The Zambian capital of Lusaka , and surrounding towns , may be in danger of sinking into the ground because of the increasing numbers of water boreholes being drilled in the area . |
| 7 | No , I mean that , you know , that , that all kind of gets off the ground |
| 8 | Parachuting is just a means of getting to the ground , once you 're there , that 's when the real work happens . |
| 9 | Parachuting is just a means of getting to the ground , once you 're there , that 's when the real work happens . |
| 10 | High structural unemployment makes alternative thinking about labour intensivity , for example more acceptable ; with less money available , small scale and community based schemes , using local resources and motivated by indigenous imagination stand far more chance of getting off the ground , provided they can obtain the right kind of encouragement and support . |
| 11 | The artist conveys in the strain reflected in the god 's features the physical effort of rising from the ground with his heavy load . |
| 12 | Topknot , who had been muttering to himself , stood up suddenly and spoke very sharply at great length , with a lot of pointing to the ground and to the sky . |
| 13 | Surface-dwelling rodents like guinea pigs and agoutis , in contrast to their burrowing relatives , can run almost as soon as they are born , and the calves of wildebeest , born while the herd is on migration , can stand up and trot after their mother within five minutes of dropping to the ground . |
| 14 | Massive structural changes were necessary to facilitate a move onto the land ; legs were needed — or at least became handy — to relieve the pressure of the amphibious bodies hitherto capable only of slithering along the ground . |
| 15 | Far too many amateurs place the ball forward in their stance when pitching , therefore increasing their chance of digging into the ground before the back of the ball . |