1.   Another boy is hitting the ground with a pickaxe, while a third is holding on to some blue plastic sheeting.

2.   As they hit the ground, she drove her fingers into his left eye.

3.   He hit the ground with a dull thud.

4.   He tried to pull out of the steep dive before hitting the ground.

5.   I thought I was going to break my neck before I ever hit the ground.

6.   My legs folded, both knees hit the ground, and I scrambled, in a rage, back on to the wheelbarrow.

7.   One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.

8.   Ranulf swallowed nervously as the bough hit the ground.

9.   The aeroplane fell apart when it hit the ground.