Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fruit and vegetables are on the ground and first floors , with flush on the floor below . |
| 2 | All she has to do is to walk away , he ca n't walk cos his fore legs are on her back back legs are on the ground . |
| 3 | However , before actually firing its spray , the skunk must revert to a position in which all four feet are on the ground , the tail is raised and the back fully arched . |
| 4 | Then Sam says something else — I do n't know — so I grab him and I have him up against the wall and feet are off the ground , and I said , ‘ Sam , I hope you know what I mean , Sam ! ’ |
| 5 | She said : ‘ He wanted me over his lap , so my feet were off the ground . |
| 6 | A lay person asked whether both his feet were off the ground simultaneously when he walked would probably be wrong as often as right . |
| 7 | The selection of these particular texts is on the grounds that they succeed in overcoming a dualistic representation of the relationship between the human subject and culture by avoiding reductionism ( either to the external world , as in behaviourism , or to the given subject , as in essentialism ) . |
| 8 | The lots are from the grounds of an institution whose garden was created around 1870 . |
| 9 | When gannets are on the ground , you ca n't miss the yellowy orange band of colour on the top of their heads which reaches down the back of their necks , and the unusual blue-grey hue of the beaks and feet . |
| 10 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |
| 11 | One of Mr Hallam 's team mates , William Morris , of Corwen Close , Ford Estate , Wirral , said that both players were on the ground kicking out at each other . |
| 12 | The bars are on the ground floor and can be reached by separate entrances : the vault bar from the street and the lounge bar from the front of the hotel . |
| 13 | The Emperor 's apartments were on the ground floor and included as well as his bedroom those rooms set aside for work , for it was from here that Napoleon III governed . |
| 14 | Accommodation for residents is on the ground floor or well-serviced by lifts . |
| 15 | To ensure that this progressive building was a success , it was essential –hat a supply of completely manufactured parts was on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced . |