Example sentences of "fell to the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two fell to the ground and the third figure disappeared into the hedgerow , followed by a long burst of fire from Taff 's Bren . |
| 2 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 3 | This guaranteed that the water fell to the ground just clear of the walls , so protecting them against damp , discoloration and decay . |
| 4 | The boy fell to the ground and lay there with his eyes shut . |
| 5 | She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground . |
| 6 | Endill fell to the ground , dropping his tools . |
| 7 | The stool he was standing on broke and he fell to the ground . |
| 8 | But the other merely advanced , and when he came up , put out a hand to touch the lady , whereupon our hero struck with all his might at his heart , and the glass splinter entered deeply and he fell to the ground . |
| 9 | He hit her hard across the head and she fell to the ground crying loudly . |
| 10 | They both fell to the ground and Sweeney kicked and struggled . |
| 11 | To uncouple , the tug drew away and the leg was so balanced that it dropped to earth by gravity : if this leg was , through any reason tight , and it failed to function , the trailer fell to the ground , and so cast its load . |
| 12 | During this war , the skies over Britain often saw a lot of aerial activity , and many planes fell to the ground damaged or in flames . |
| 13 | Losing her balance , she fell to the ground , and one of the wheels passed over her . |
| 14 | The young copper rushed bull-like at Sam , swung a terrific right which landed above the head , just displacing a lot of air ; lost his balance , fell to the ground — and as he rolled over quickly to make a scramble to his feet , Sam pounced with his booted feet . |
| 15 | The older McNab fell to the ground with a broken jaw . |
| 16 | A choked cry escaped her before she fell to the ground , her legs no longer able to support her . |
| 17 | They closed , lost balance and fell to the ground , rolling , kicking , punching , hands reaching for each other 's throats . |
| 18 | Garty 's legs collapsed and he fell to the ground , a twitching moaning heap . |
| 19 | He shed tears the way a flower sheds petals , they fell to the ground , lay scattered round his feet . |
| 20 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 21 | In Luke 's story an angel came and comforted Jesus , as he prayed so earnestly that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood ( Luke 22:43–44 ) . |
| 22 | The French referee awarded a dubious penalty to make it 1–1 in Germany , and then dismissed Wednesday goalscorer Hirst after Kaiserslautern defender Marco Haber dramatically fell to the ground after the players brushed together . |
| 23 | But the bobby fell to the ground as the raider blasted him in the groin with a shotgun . |
| 24 | ‘ They bowled , Fred hit it — and he fell to the ground . ’ |
| 25 | Deputy sheriff Carlos Pedilla said : ‘ He fell to the ground and never regained consciousness . ’ |
| 26 | By 1235 , the whole question of forgery stood on a new moral and legal footing , and the corporate ambitions of the monks fell to the ground in a blaze of scandal . |
| 27 | Tree branches , whole trunks , were blasted into the air , then fell to the ground , only to be interred or repeatedly thrown upward by further explosions ; likewise mangled machinery and dismembered human bodies and those of horses . |
| 28 | As he raised his boots to hit the labour master , the latter , in self defence , slapped him with the flat of his hand and closed with him , whereupon both fell to the ground . |
| 29 | But though the oldest evidence for maize in Mexico dates back 5,300 years , Dr Piperno 's earliest phytoliths fell to the ground ( or , rather , blew into a lake ) around 7,000 years ago . |
| 30 | A struggle ensued and both fell to the ground . |