Example sentences of "to the ground with " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not merely the gracious bow they give each other before they begin , nor the even more gracious one when she submits to the prince , sinking to the ground with head bent low . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember to this day coming out after tea at Jo'burg , 1948-49 , going down on to the ground with Len ; vast crowd , and this fellow comes out of it and says ‘ only 30 more for the record , boys ’ . |
| 3 | And when Hampson brought the Leeds hooker , Colin Maskill , to the ground with just such a tackle he must have known that the rest of his season would be cut short . |
| 4 | The older McNab fell to the ground with a broken jaw . |
| 5 | ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw . |
| 6 | Mr Morgan crumpled to the ground with a fractured rib , collapsed lung and bruising . |
| 7 | Horrified Arthur Day saw the three-year-old fall to the ground with a serious head injury when the weapon went off . |
| 8 | ‘ It hauled me to the ground with a thump and started mauling me on the back and neck . ’ |
| 9 | Within seconds of her uttering those words , 11-year-old Allibar reared its head back and collapsed to the ground with a massive coronary . |
| 10 | While she is occupied in examining the gift , he quickly scuttles over her and ties her to the ground with bonds of silk before he risks an embrace . |
| 11 | They are quite capable of grabbing a solitary puffin in mid-air with their beaks or even beating it to the ground with blows of their wings . |
| 12 | It hit poor Tom between the shoulders , and he fell to the ground with a cry . |
| 13 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |
| 14 | Topped by a few sprouting leaves the poles were festooned to the ground with garlands of paper-wrapped firecrackers , which were all now detonating deafeningly . |
| 15 | Then he pulled her to him , and kissed her and this time stayed kissing her , and when she did not struggle , he pressed on , and went down to the ground with her and months of longing for her flooded him almost instantly , so that he had no time to swing with her long , cool firmness as he had dreamed of so often , but the instant release in contact with her swept away all his turbulence . |
| 16 | Caspar let go of the sill and slid rapidly to the ground with a bump , looking a bit sick . |
| 17 | In certain styles of kung fu , methods of combat are practised for taking someone to the ground with a sweep , called a ‘ take-down ’ . |
| 18 | 4 The attacker is swept to the ground with no defence . |
| 19 | 5 The attacker falls to the ground with no defence . |
| 20 | The heavy grey body fell to the ground with a scree and was lost to view amid the plunging hoofs of Riven 's horse . |
| 21 | A shopkeeper is in hospital after being clubbed to the ground with a baseball bat . |
| 22 | Among several unusual figurative images , Salvatore Rosa 's Philosopher Pointing to the Ground with a Companion beside Him derives mysterious qualities from its mixture of ink and brown wash over black chalk . |
| 23 | Newton said : ‘ We both fell to the ground with our legs tangled . |