Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sank down to the ground , hugging her knees and rocking herself back and forth to keep warm . |
| 2 | As it sank obediently to the ground floor , he thought again about McCloy 's mysterious feat of modern highwaymanship . |
| 3 | Blake apparently broke one of the cast-iron sections of the frame , creating a space through which he could crawl , and then dropped down to the ground below , a distance of 22 feet , which was broken by the roof of a covered passageway . |
| 4 | Its strange , lowered vista , for instance ( which now reminds the adult more than anything else of George Herriman 's Krazy Kat , where buildings disappear and reappear from frame to frame " ) is an obvious representation of London in the late forties and fifties : all the houses had gaps in between , because of the bombs , and the sky came closer to the ground than seemed right . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you were someone else , ’ explained Endill as he climbed down to the ground . |
| 6 | Their hair was entwined with golden cords , and their dresses , richly embroidered with beads , pearls and precious metals , flowed almost to the ground . |
| 7 | She hung on to the ground , waiting . |
| 8 | The last serial dinosaurs were therefore mainly the big beaked ones who fed close to the ground like modern cattle ( or more particularly like bison , with their downflexed spinal curvature ) . |
| 9 | It was black under the trees and a white mist of dislodged snow hung close to the ground . |
| 10 | The chain clattered noisily to the ground . |
| 11 | The artist has created a marvellous pattern out of the limbs of beasts and men superposed in parallel planes stepped back to the ground and punctuated by the frontal heads of the near oxen ; a sophisticated and brilliantly successful design . |
| 12 | The Mackinnons belonged closer to the ground of Skye , an open house where all strata mingled easily . |
| 13 | Turning , she rushed to the stairs and started down to the ground floor . |
| 14 | The major fell on to the ground . |
| 15 | A fine trail of dust dislodged from the door frame and drifted slowly to the ground . |
| 16 | Towards the centre of that area were roses and rhododendrons that had been left to grow like weeds , and a willow tree whose branches reached right to the ground to create a shady den around its trunk . |
| 17 | Then he pulled her to him , and kissed her and this time stayed kissing her , and when she did not struggle , he pressed on , and went down to the ground with her and months of longing for her flooded him almost instantly , so that he had no time to swing with her long , cool firmness as he had dreamed of so often , but the instant release in contact with her swept away all his turbulence . |
| 18 | ‘ But the lift buttons only went down to the ground floor . ’ |
| 19 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 20 | Putting his hand to a crumbling step , he vaulted down to the ground and landed running . |
| 21 | In the Kras the vines grew close to the ground , and the fields were tiny and defined by stone walls , while in the Po valley there seemed to be no walls at all . |
| 22 | The burka was a long face veil which reached almost to the ground . |
| 23 | Jeeps , ammunition and food fell silently to the ground . |
| 24 | Jeeps , ammunition and food fell silently to the ground . |
| 25 | He swerved sharply to the left but his leg hit the edge of the wooden stand and he fell heavily to the ground , spilling an assortment of fruit across the pavement . |
| 26 | They both fell heavily to the ground and the Browning went spinning from Whitlock 's hand . |
| 27 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 28 | Suddenly she was grasped from behind and the sky swam all around her as she fell heavily to the ground , landing with Fernando half across her . |
| 29 | He raised his hand and started towards Oliver with a mad look in his eyes , but fell violently to the ground , shaking and gasping , in a fit . |
| 30 | 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 . |