Example sentences of "on to the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | In very light cross winds there is always the possibility of dropping a wing on to the ground and swinging badly . |
| 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 | An average ant colony might use around 12 different types of signal , most of them conveyed by means of chemical ‘ pheromones ’ secreted on to the ground by various glands and then sniffed in the air by other ants . |
| 4 | The billposter attempting to paste the second of his ‘ Cooper and Co 's Teas ’ posters on the hoarding watched the paper slowly curl back from the wall and drop on to the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 6 | The airport control tower was built out from the roof of the house and several huts of varied design were built on to the ground floor as reception , customs and office areas . |
| 7 | There he pulled off his white turban and let his long black hair coil over his shoulder and drop down on to the ground . |
| 8 | Then he lifted the body so that the blood dribbled over the stones and spilt on to the ground in front of him , where it was littered with the remains of other , older offerings — dead flowers , grains of rice and barley , a few coins . |
| 9 | In the added heat of the fire beads of sweat welled on her forehead , rolled down the furrows of her face and , gaining momentum , dropped weightily on to the ground . |
| 10 | Then , making a soft purring sound she scattered a handful of maize kernels on to the ground in front of her and the hens stuck out their necks and stalked across . |
| 11 | As the nun passed Kelly 's table , she knocked the remains of a glass of port on to the ground . |
| 12 | The air ripped apart , a dying Russian falling like a rag doll on to the ground beside him . |
| 13 | Airport director Carlos Saruca Salgado said the jet broke in two , spilling passengers on to the ground and a fire broke out in the rear of the fuselage . |
| 14 | He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged . |
| 15 | Pion helped Masklin down on to the ground , which seemed to him to be moving from side to side . |
| 16 | ‘ Bouncing off the sides or front on to the ground , being hit by other children , or just falling awkwardly while on the inflatable accounted for most of the injuries , ’ says the report . |
| 17 | This was a man who perhaps gave to all tube buskers indiscriminately , without even looking at them , for he tossed a 5P piece on to the ground as he strode past . |
| 18 | Throwing the seat-cover of waxed taffeta from the box on to the ground , von Keller shouted ‘ It 's the Emperor 's carriage — It 's mine ! ’ |
| 19 | They come down on to the ground and immediately their wings break off close to the thorax . |
| 20 | He does this gravely , perhaps fearing — with some justification from what I can see — that the whole thing might collapse like a car in a Laurel and Hardy movie , falling absolutely fiat on to the ground in its component parts . |
| 21 | She hung on to the ground , waiting . |
| 22 | The ice was beginning to melt , and she could hear the drip of water from her ice-cold slit on to the ground . |
| 23 | His eyes turned up so that only the whites were left and he made an ugly sound deep in his throat , then he went forward , full-face on to the ground . |
| 24 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 25 | Ariel feels the old woman flapping feebly with her legs , and though she holds on , Sycorax slides off her back and on to the ground ; she cries to Ariel again to run , run as hard as she can , and from the ground she begins to shriek , till the guard himself cries out , and drops on one knee to take aim in the pitch dark . |
| 26 | Before he could reach out and stab him as he planned , and then kill his companion too , and with support from his companions , seize the cannon himself , he heard a scream of pain behind him and realised that another of his fellow fighters had fallen from the ring fence on to the ground . |
| 27 | They did not make any hurry about it and Balor writhed and flailed helplessly and blood began to run out on to the ground beneath him . |
| 28 | She sagged back on to the ground again . |
| 29 | We saw with horror the blood running out on to the ground from his head . |
| 30 | We saw with horror the blood running out on to the ground from his head . |