Example sentences of "was [verb] face [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hazy conditions a bright yellow camera bag was spotted first , a few feet from the corpse , which was lodged face down between a rock and a bush . |
| 2 | The body was lying face up in the rain . |
| 3 | I was lying face down on the ground . |
| 4 | His admonition was unnecessary , for Robbie chose that moment to black out , and the next thing she knew she was lying face down on the canal bank , with Fen applying rough but effective resuscitation techniques . |
| 5 | It was wholly predictable , then , that at about 8.50 on the morning of Monday , March 17 , I was lying face down in the grammar school dirt with 30 jeering first formers on my back . |
| 6 | Mr Peter Jowett , 43 , was found face down in a copse on his 1,000-acre Wiltshire estate on Wednesday night with a .38 bullet lodged in the centre of his back . |
| 7 | She was forced face down on the bed while another man went through her belongings . |
| 8 | ‘ He was floating face down in the carp pond ! ’ |