Example sentences of "[pn reflx] down on the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt .
2 He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling .
3 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 .
4 She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard .
5 Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane .
6 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 .
7 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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