Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steward turned and spat on the ground . |
| 2 | Twice stone broke off in his hand ; once a chunk of battlement fell and plunged to the ground . |
| 3 | The wave toppled , thrashed and boiled against the ground , but hardly advanced another step up the beach . |
| 4 | The study will also assess whether such rational management systems are presentational devices , as some critics claim , by assessing the extent to which management work and policing on the ground are directed at and by the rational management system . |
| 5 | If the stake can not take the strain and goes at the ground level weak spot , the plant stem has to bend sharply where it is trapped between its firmly-held root and the bottom tie . |
| 6 | In places the accumulated plaster of years , too heavy to bear its own weight , had cracked and crumbled , and fallen to the ground before her brush like broken china . |
| 7 | As he spoke , he looked at Ludovico , who was furiously plucking at the strings of his racket and gazing at the ground . |
| 8 | So I flipped around and made for the ground , I 'd completely lost my bearings , I did n't recognize it , did n't even know which panel it was . |
| 9 | He slipped on the damp pavement and tumbled to the ground . |
| 10 | Once Dandelion struck the smell of a stoat and they all joined him , whispering and sniffing over the ground . |
| 11 | Without the pinpoint contact of the tips of the claws , the animals may find themselves slipping and crashing to the ground . |
| 12 | In April the protective mound of soil safeguarding the grafting wound is ploughed back , burying the manure applied in the winter and levelling off the ground between the rows of vines . |
| 13 | Then waited , shivering , as the rain tipped off the brim of his top hat and spattered on the ground . |
| 14 | The shackles , the whip and the hoe , these emblems of slavery , lie broken and scattered on the ground ; while the plough , the sickle and the flail , emblematical of improved and free labour are conspicuously displayed . |
| 15 | The enormous edifice of presumed relationships built up from careful study of homologous structures , ( the supreme example is the study of bones in the skulls of reptiles ) may have to be re-examined , and if necessary dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up . |
| 16 | If a cable break occurs just after the glider has left the ground , care must be taken not to overdo the lowering of the nose and fly into the ground . |
| 17 | Rivers had overflowed their banks , sudden whirlwinds cut swathes through woodlands leaving a tangled pathway of mature trees savagely uprooted and torn upon the ground . |
| 18 | What principally weighs with me in thinking that Lord Coke made a mistake of fact is my conviction that all men of business , whether merchants or tradesmen , do every day recognise and act on the ground that prompt payment of a part of their demand may be more beneficial to them than it would be to insist on their rights and enforce payment of the whole . |
| 19 | Place a block of wood over the plastic tube and knock into the ground , occasionally placing the clothes line pole into the tube to check the tube is vertical |
| 20 | Primaflora , who wore no scent at all , crossed her unadorned wrists and sank to the ground . |
| 21 | Spurred on again by a stream of oaths , it staggered a few paces further and sank to the ground , defeated . |
| 22 | But when he woke at quarter past six , his mind was full of ugly images , of Alex trembling , of the gun , and , most of all , of the expression of bewilderment and betrayal on Michael Banks 's face as he clutched at his chest and sank to the ground . |
| 23 | This probably explains why little children favour tall animals , that they have never seen in reality , to animals that slither and scuffle across the ground . |
| 24 | Taking hold of a strong branch , he finally cleared the escape hatch with his legs and dropped to the ground . |
| 25 | Finally Travis let himelf down by his arms and dropped to the ground . |
| 26 | Stephanie comes forward and lies on the ground . |
| 27 | It was so absorbed in its feast that it ignored the soft approach of the man who had treated it so kindly , and could do no more than scratch and struggle as it was grasped by the neck , and lifted from the ground , its belly exposed to the flashing steel blade of a fish knife . |
| 28 | According to ancient Gothic legend , duergars sprang from the maggots eating the flesh of the giant YMIR , and fled into the ground when the first light broke . |
| 29 | Attached to the bottom of the betalite , which is encased in a plastic tube for protection , is a length of braided terylene tied at the other end to my back rod-rest , so that when I strike the indicator pulls off and drops to the ground . |
| 30 | And drops to the ground |