Example sentences of "fall to the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumped up , pulling the lower branches of the tree down and clipped off stems , letting them fall to the ground . |
| 2 | Jinny let the paper fall to the ground and , very carefully , began to colour in the fair hair around Liam Shakespeare 's face . |
| 3 | So that not even a sparrow shall fall to the ground unnoticed by Him ’ . |
| 4 | Paddy Kennedy , an RLP councillor who was himself taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs , said that he had seen Fitt fall to the ground and he had appeared to be on his knees when he was struck by a baton . |
| 5 | While he was wrestling with this problem , he happened to go to a lecture by Einstein , and was struck by Einstein 's remark that his theory of relativity would fall to the ground if any of several tests failed . |
| 6 | And although it may smack of determinism , there will be certain laws that if a brick or apple is dropped , they will fall to the ground , the latter getting bruised . |
| 7 | Failing payment of the £30 the Company 's promise would fall to the ground . |
| 8 | Sigarup bowed his head and cupped both palms loosely in front of his face , as if none of the yellow rice should fall to the ground . |
| 9 | He turned her to face him , then untied the silk from her eyes , letting it fall to the ground . |
| 10 | As he turned to close the door of the tower behind them , she let them fall to the ground again . |
| 11 | He dropped into the nearest one and let the zimmer fall to the ground . |
| 12 | In places the accumulated plaster of years , too heavy to bear its own weight , had cracked and crumbled , and fallen to the ground before her brush like broken china . |
| 13 | Wilkins said that he and the police constable had hold of one another and the officer had fallen to the ground . |
| 14 | A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her . |
| 15 | Then , gripping it , he passed through the rustle of the reed jalousie hanging in the doorway into the small interior , where Sycorax lay on her side , collapsed on the beaten earth like a child 's poppet made from plaited grass , with Ariel on her haunches beside her , head sunk on her knees , a fan fallen to the ground beside her . |
| 16 | But all I find are a few rather stale cobs already fallen to the ground . |
| 17 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 18 | He said a man had taken a lunge at him and he had fallen to the ground . |
| 19 | The pace was slow as much of the lighting , chandeliers , etc , had fallen to the ground in the previous explosion and was difficult to avoid and run through . |
| 20 | Those winked at have to fall to the ground and play dead . |
| 21 | The teamwork was superfluous , because the pilot was dead before the second burst hit him , his plane was on fire before the third burst cut it apart , and the fourth simply knocked sideways a wreck which had only to fall to the ground . |
| 22 | A spear , too spent to hurt , struck his own shield and found no room to fall to the ground , for by then men and shields were packed close around and behind him , and the three wedges had formed the svinfylkja , the pig 's snout , the secret of Odin that he hoped fur-traders ' sons had not been instructed about . |
| 23 | Jesus said : ‘ Unless an ear of wheat falls to the ground and dies , it remains only a single seed . |
| 24 | ( I do not pretend to understand precisely how this occurs , just as I do not ‘ understand ’ why an apple falls to the ground . |
| 25 | A small group of people are re-enacting the final slow elegiac movements of the Leprous Pavanne as their rotting , stinking flesh falls to the ground in scabrous lumps . |
| 26 | Seeds of such a size remain in its gizzard for a little time while the rind is stripped off them and then later , perhaps when the bird has returned to one of its habitual perches , the nutmeg is regurgitated and falls to the ground . |
| 27 | And in that case the epistemological asymmetry which depends on it falls to the ground . |
| 28 | If the central provinces are taken as typical , the neo-populist case is persuasive ; if , on the other hand , the outlying provinces are regarded as blazing a trail which central Russia would follow , it falls to the ground . |
| 29 | But consider this : a shot rings out , a man falls to the ground clutching his leg , slowly the red stain seeps out on to his trousers . |
| 30 | For , surely , once it is realised that all that we do have and can rely upon are series of perceptions and ideas , it becomes clear that there can be no justification for assuming the existence of any such metaphysical " substrata " , and the whole doctrine of substance falls to the ground . |