Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] down on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plopped himself down on the nearest chair . |
| 2 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
| 3 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 4 | Felicity flung herself down on the sacrificial stone , opening wide her legs , arching her back , so that her pudendum rose in the air like some nocturnal flower . |
| 5 | She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard . |
| 6 | He grunted by way of greeting as the fat widow dumped herself down on the other chair , but did not raise his eyes from his reading . |
| 7 | She was hit and caught fire while going in to attack at low level and her pilot Don MacIntyre brought her down on the frozen surface of nearby Lake Hocklingen . |
| 8 | Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch . |
| 9 | Belinda put it down on the nearest table and sat there , shaking and desperately trying not to show how upset she was over Deana 's blunt accusation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |