Example sentences of "[prep] dangerous ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel was about to protest — this sounded like dangerous ground — but somehow it seemed the lesser of two evils and as she turned the key in the ignition she felt a flutter of excitement and she knew , deep down , that she wanted to go with him . |
| 2 | Monographs treating potentially contentious areas have tended to be published in very restricted editions , and until the most recent times an individual historian who strayed onto dangerous ground or advanced unwelcome ideas ran the risk of public reprimand and expulsion from the profession . |
| 3 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 4 | But we are always on dangerous grounds if we accept this as anything other than a last resort in the absence of really adequate evidence of evolving fossil lineages . |
| 5 | thin ground I think you 're on dangerous grounds adjusting the formulations are n't you without |
| 6 | Here we are on dangerous ground , though . |
| 7 | So when you 're talking about marketing and the marketing manager 's in the audience , you could say , ‘ Whoops , I 'm on dangerous ground — I know John over there knows a lot more about this than I do . ’ |
| 8 | Second , that any official who ignores them is on dangerous ground . |
| 9 | If the authorities do not respond to the opinions of the players then they are on dangerous ground and their motives might be questioned . |
| 10 | I would question this , as I feel we are treading on dangerous ground if we even contemplate trying to impose our values in this way , however strongly we feel personally . |
| 11 | He was on dangerous ground here . |
| 12 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 13 | The firm set of Niall Grant 's mouth suggested that she was treading on dangerous ground . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe she 'll meet someone else , ’ she floundered helplessly , realising she was on dangerous ground . |
| 15 | Weakened Italians on dangerous ground |
| 16 | His eyes shifted as if he had been lured on to dangerous ground . |