Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 2 | When the sun slides across the sky from right to left and the new moon faces the wrong way you are ready to bet the stripes of the rainbow are inside out , yet curiously unprepared to find the Plough fallen from its high point in the heavens and collapsed face down on the night horizon . |
| 3 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 4 | I could feel the blast on my back as I was pitched forward , landing face down on the ground unable to move and gasping for breath . |
| 5 | Will the Frys lay into me , send Vern off into the night , tell me I need my head examining making friends with that sort of boy ? |
| 6 | Yes I think that 's the sort of thing when you 're a defender the goalkeeper s the goalkeeper 's almost on it but if you 're not sure you get rid of the thing and then say turn round to the keeper sorry pall but I 'm playing safe . |
| 7 | He tried to pull Caspar back down the slope . |
| 8 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 9 | Tell him it 's the sort of thing no woman would want let out of the bag . |
| 10 | Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ? |
| 11 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Birds are prominent on the tundra , especially in summer when migrant waders and waterfowl pour in from the south ; only a few species are year-round residents . |
| 14 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 15 | He says Come down to the surgery in the morning . |
| 16 | When I cleaned it up , I found it to be in really good condition and one of the nicest I have ever seen come out of the river . |
| 17 | Tommy is pressed face up against the wall , arms handcuffed behind his back . |
| 18 | This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected . |
| 19 | The rock slice is placed face down in a polythene tray into 30% HF solution for 3 or 4 min . |
| 20 | And there , as he ( Tethra ) lay face down in the lee of an upturned boat , … he let his thinking catch up with him . |
| 21 | When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them . |
| 22 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 23 | Erm , I wear make up as a mask basically gives me confidence and it stops me having to be myself which I feel is n't good enough for the public |
| 24 | Lie face down on the floor with your feet together and your hands shoulder width apart . |
| 25 | Lie face down on the floor with your hands touching in the small of the back and your legs straight out and together . |
| 26 | Buzz found herself lying face up in the snow , in great pain , unable to move : as helpless as a black beetle flipped on to its back . |
| 27 | But five days after he moved in he was found by staff horribly scalded across his back and chest lying face up in the bath . |
| 28 | The body was lying face up in the rain . |
| 29 | With a slash of the knife he remembers when he was twelve , lying face down on the landing , watching and listening to his parents arguing about him and his future . |
| 30 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |