Example sentences of "[noun pl] off the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground . |
| 2 | ‘ Twigs and I have formed a little company called Mask to get several projects off the ground , ’ Leigh says . |
| 3 | I agree with all those points , and the Essex TEC is to be congratulated on its success in getting those programmes off the ground . |
| 4 | He will argue that Scots put a higher proportion of their wealth into forming small businesses but are restricted from getting their fledgling operations off the ground through a lack of capital . |
| 5 | She lifted three legs off the ground and put them down again . |
| 6 | And then you lift your feet off the ground and rush round and round , faster and faster and the momentum even twists the chain up again the other way ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , your Lucy has got you winding her chain , darling , and she just wo n't take her feet off the ground and let go — am I right ? ’ |
| 8 | When he is walking outside , the patient has to be specially careful to lift his feet off the ground so that he does not trip . |
| 9 | Nor is it to do with rarified ascetical exercises , a ‘ feet off the ground ’ spirituality . |
| 10 | exactly two feet off the ground , |
| 11 | On peering through a hole in the wall I saw that Poulette was a strapping Ardennaise , performing her duties admirably , but that her poor master was having to press so hard to keep the plough in the soil that the entire weight of his body was being taken by his arms and he was advancing across the vineyards behind Poulette with his feet off the ground . |
| 12 | ‘ It does n't matter how tall you are , if you ca n't get your feet off the ground , you 're no better than anyone else . |
| 13 | Balance on your bottom , knees together , feet off the ground , arms bent holding the ‘ oars ’ . |
| 14 | Personally , I will never forget the sight of Yannick Noah , the French Davis Cup captain , leaping almost four feet off the ground to acclaim the first and the seemingly impossible French victory in the Davis Cup since the ‘ Three Musketeers ’ carried it off in the thirties . |
| 15 | In The Interpretation of Dreams Freud related how a patient regularly dreamed of floating a couple of feet off the ground . |
| 16 | " Yes , but how do you get the height ? " he replied , " Most of the time I just float two feet off the ground , and hardly ever get to fly at any decent height . " |
| 17 | The ladder was undulating like a sea serpent as the king 's coffin , already thirty feet off the ground , was arduously borne upwards suspended on shoulder-straps between three men . |
| 18 | When he rounded the final bend , he saw the helicopter hovering in the middle of the road , no more than five feet off the ground and some twenty metres from the gates . |
| 19 | That meant that , unless the one standing to his right was abnormally tall , he could n't be suspended more than about six feet off the ground . |
| 20 | But a strong feeling persisted , when I swung my feet off the ground and lay back , that something was trying to slip between me and reality . |
| 21 | The stilt-like wooden pillars lifted the single-storeyed living space anything up to twelve feet off the ground , and the open space underneath , which allowed breezes to flow beneath the house to keep it cool , was usually enclosed with light wooden laticework . |
| 22 | ‘ Would you do a marathon of keeping your feet off the ground for as long as possible with Les Dawson ? ’ |
| 23 | He suddenly cracked the whip and the horse leapt astonishingly , all four feet off the ground in a strange little manoeuvre like a startled cat . |
| 24 | ‘ Hup ! ’ they shouted , and the Zetor hupped , climbing roofwards , six feet off the ground and more , crushing grass beneath its belly , slipping , gripping , shuddering . |
| 25 | I remember that volley though both feet off the ground , it screamed in . |
| 26 | You know , if you say David in most places , it did n't have a hell of a lot of effect after all , he just came If you sort of mention , like , a name like Walls or Rennells , you got people with feet several , you know , feet off the ground . |
| 27 | A fireman and his girlfriend are tonight engaged after he proposed to her forty feet off the ground . |
| 28 | A man died and a woman was seriously injured in a stolen car which crashed after catapulting six feet off the ground into a telegraph pole . |
| 29 | One Dog and Her Man is the definitive guide to life viewed from two feet off the ground . |
| 30 | The equipment leisure officers have in mind is mainly made of wood , treated against vandalism and decay , while its lay-out means children using it will at no time be more than one and a half feet off the ground . |