Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 2 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 3 | And there , as he ( Tethra ) lay face down in the lee of an upturned boat , … he let his thinking catch up with him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The body was lying face up in the rain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was wholly predictable , then , that at about 8.50 on the morning of Monday , March 17 , I was lying face down in the grammar school dirt with 30 jeering first formers on my back . |
| 8 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
| 9 | Unlike those of the Philistines his worst fears have been realized , and the cry he hears go up in the town is not for the ark 's arrival , but for its capture . |
| 10 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 11 | I mean turn out in the er in , in in er er European elections was er in nineteen eighty four it was thirty two percent and in nineteen er eighty nine , thirty seven percent . |
| 12 | ‘ He was floating face down in the carp pond ! ’ |
| 13 | Even though , he lost his footing and ended up ‘ floating face down in the dark water , his body resting over the length of the rake as if it were afloat . |
| 14 | Before they get the chance to push eachother around in the ring , the 2 men have to put up with equally undignified treatment from the nation 's press . |
| 15 | Patrick had drown up in the tenements and immediately recognized their peculiar odour — the smell of cabbage and urine , of burnt food and unwashed humanity . |
| 16 | This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides . |
| 17 | I 'm going to give you a conducted tour down in the marina . |
| 18 | No eye pitied thee , to do any of these things unto thee ; but thou wast cast out in the open field in the loathesomeness of thy person … |
| 19 | Yes so why did you say shut up in the first place ? |