Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] on the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was on the ground and Robert came running over me and accidentally gashed my head with his boot , ’ said Barnes . |
| 2 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
| 3 | Then she was on the ground with Allen beside her . |
| 4 | We were on the ground floor of the flats , and we got to know a lot of them as neighbours as well as some of them as clients . |
| 5 | Short of actually some sort of war breaking out or some an incident breaking out whilst we were on the ground , I suppose they might have actually apprehended us , but otherwise I think the chances of anything happening to the people , or Ted Heath , who were out there were very , very slim . |
| 6 | One little piece of history was made when Roland Butcher became the first black man to play for England , and by a neat coincidence it was on the ground just fourteen miles from his birth-place . |
| 7 | When it was on the ground it looked kind of lost . |
| 8 | It was on the ground floor , at the back of the house . |
| 9 | God knows how I did n't kill myself and the sheer of the whole thing was , it was n't even on the second floor , it was on the ground floor , they were just pulling a . |
| 10 | He was on the ground down . |
| 11 | The rope swayed a little as he went down hand over hand , then he was on the ground and the rope went still again as he held it fast and turned his face up to her . |