Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb base] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 2 | Maha followed them but Hussa and I threw ourselves face down on the warm , white sand , both of us smiling at the success of the project . |
| 3 | Dauntless shambled over to the edge of the stream and threw himself face down on the grass , cupping handfuls of water and throwing it over his head , gulping it greedily . |
| 4 | With a bright flicker of satisfaction , she watched him slide down into the water , his large body making a flurry of waves ripple the surface . |
| 5 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 6 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 7 | To play , we each choose one of our cards and lay it face down on the table . |
| 8 | ‘ Before leaving , Risdon tied up both men , left them face down in the bathroom , and fired a gun into the mattress , ’ claimed Mr Curtis . |
| 9 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 10 | The thief then bound his feet , wrists and mouth with tape and left him face down on the office floor before making off with the money in Barry 's car . |
| 11 | Cati fell silent , and watched Rosa , who did n't wait to hear Sabina 's voice rise to end the verse , but , shaking with sobs , fled to her room , and there hurled herself face down on the bed . |
| 12 | He took her roughly by the hair and pushed her face down into the ground . |