Example sentences of "upside down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was trying to read the newspaper upside down without much success . |
| 2 | It is so aerodynamically perfect and the down forces are so strong it could travel upside down across your ceiling at 150mph without falling off . |
| 3 | Upside down across the table he reads something about bicycles in the hall and cogitations in the study … |
| 4 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 5 | Robin Belcher was paddling in Australian colours and he and partner Fraser dropped their K2 upside down into the water while relaunching from the moderately high jetty at Chertsey . |
| 6 | The heir to the throne , a shy , sensitive boy , was often held upside down over the lavatory by schoolmates who delighted in pulling the chain . |
| 7 | Well here 's one man who is very definitely erm upside down about the whole thing , if I can just er tip him over a little bit there , could you , no I 'll try that one again will I |
| 8 | But still Timothy Ful Cher , 31 , kept his arms firmly wrapped around Nony Tedjakasume as they dangled upside down above the water . |
| 9 | Upside down above the pavement |
| 10 | Staff and students are turning the world of learning upside down during Alternative Learning Week as they try out inventive ways of teaching and learning . |
| 11 | The mob rose and attacked Gaunt 's palace of the Savoy , hanging his coat of arms upside down as the sign of a traitor . |
| 12 | When feminism becomes respectable — and if the world has n't been turned upside down as a consequence — the significance of our achievements needs to be examined carefully . |
| 13 | An accident could hospitalise you tomorrow — and your life could be turned upside down for months . |
| 14 | There are a number of accessories for the sander , including a sanding frame to allow even sanding of large areas , and a frame to hold the tool upside down for stationary use . |
| 15 | turned our day upside down for a lark . |
| 16 | He was n't going to come charging back , forcing her to remember things she had worked long and hard to forget , turning her entire world upside down for a second time . |
| 17 | Once seed heads/leaves change colour remove and hang upside down for a while ensuring the tips preserve too . |
| 18 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 19 | The inevitable happened and I was off , dangling upside down on the end of the rope seconds later , 30 feet below , parallel to my climbing companions . |
| 20 | A video image of Dale Kunzler , 10 , from Todmorden , West Yorkshire , is projected upside down on a screen behind him during a video workshop at the ‘ Let's Make A Film ’ Festival held at the National Museum of Photography , Film and Television in Bradford at the weekend . |
| 21 | Turn the shells upside down on kitchen paper to drain any juice while preparing the dip . |
| 22 | He delighted in the blue tits which hung upside down on the peanuts Jane put out , yet his job was killing chickens — just because there was no other work . |
| 23 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |
| 24 | ‘ After getting out of the cab , I looked round and saw what looked like a car upside down on fire . |
| 25 | Every morning he runs along the deck upside down on his hands . |
| 26 | I was very bad at gym , and really hated ‘ apparatus ’ , where we hurled ourselves over boxes and horses , or hung upside down on parallel bars . |
| 27 | Turned upside down on the floor , it became my boat , my cart , a railway engine — it 's amazing what a child can make of a simple object in imagination . |
| 28 | She then took her father 's hat from his head , laid it upside down on the sand , rocked it backwards and forwards a few times , then upset it . |
| 29 | In the pubs the bar staff put the chairs upside down on the tables and shouted , ‘ Hurry up now , please , thank you . ’ |
| 30 | 3 Put a large transparent plastic container ( e.g. a used ice-cream carton ) upside down on a corner of a garden-bed or lawn . |