Example sentences of "face [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But face down in the middle of the floor there lay the body of a man . |
| 2 | Face down in the middle of the floor there lay the body of a man . |
| 3 | For another team , more dangerous company appeared when the local fishing fleet came out , and the paddlers bent over , face down in the canoe , keeping her stern-on to the newcomers by deft tweaks of the paddles as they drifted less than 30 yards from two boats . |
| 4 | ‘ Landing face down in the bottom of a boat would hardly be the way to win the heart of the woman you love . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | Anything goes wrong , they 'll just leave you face down in the shit . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Bastard , ’ growled Lofty , ‘ they 'll find him face down in the river one of these days , the way he 's goin on . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Before leaving , Risdon tied up both men , left them face down in the bathroom , and fired a gun into the mattress , ’ claimed Mr Curtis . |
| 9 | One more such blow , I thought , face down in the sand , and I am gone . |
| 10 | And there , as he ( Tethra ) lay face down in the lee of an upturned boat , … he let his thinking catch up with him . |
| 11 | Silent , face down in the half-light , the black boy writhes hips and spine , serpentine , oiled , musculature moving as in dance , inviting a cock to complete him , counterpoint his eros of motion with some simpler , maybe brutal , theme . |
| 12 | The man in white drags her body over the rock and lays it face down in the centre . |
| 13 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 14 | Then place the cards face down in the position for ‘ Find the cards ’ and immediately know where to find each of the matching pairs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 17 | One is now face down in the corner , snoring on a pile of old cheese cloths . |
| 18 | As the country is at present face down in the mire , such a development could only have positive benefits for us all . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The body was lying face up in the rain . |