Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 2 | Ladies , two , with ample flesh flapping from the bones of their legs spread themselves thickly on the tube train seat and gather in their posh polythene well-advertised shopping receptacles like a doting mother with five children . |
| 3 | Perhaps Twenty-fourthers hired themselves out on a contract basis to anyone wanting to lean heavily on un-Islamic behaviour . |
| 4 | Two of the men flung themselves down on a bench , scabbards clattering , while the third strode forward , kicking Isabel 's abandoned bucket out of his path . |
| 5 | The flames which belched from every opening caused the two struggling men to fling themselves flat on the ground to escape their scorching blast . |
| 6 | Nomes flung themselves flat on the trembling deck of the cab . |