Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] 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 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 .
4 She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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