Sentence examples for had tipped over from inspiring English sources

Being jealous, I would take the mickey: the little plastic figure of a porter had tipped over, as had the lady-with-shopping-basket. A massacre had occurred within a scene supposed to be as quotidian as possible.

O'Brien and his colleagues traced the blaze to a halogen lamp in Hampton's bedroom that had tipped over, igniting a bedspread.

In 1997, he worked out a provocative explanation for the abnormally speedy drift of continental plates about the same time as the Cambrian explosion: Earth's rotational axis had tipped over by as much as 90°, Kirschvink proposed.

By the time the boom reached us they were both on the ground and a plume of smoke had obscured one; at first, I thought the first to land had tipped over and blown up in a staccato series of detonations.

A backhoe had tipped over at the construction site.

"In the street, two orange cones had tipped over, vivid and isosceles," Mona notes at one point.

Has news that Michelle is, according to latest polls, more popular than him filled Barack with such jealousy that he has tipped over to hating the whole gender?

On the kitchen table, the elder's school bag has tipped over, spilling creased worksheets, drawings, biscuit wrappers and pencil shavings.

In "Parasomnia" (at right), a man who may or may not be asleep has tipped over in his chair, but Ms. Sassen has rotated the image so he almost appears to be in freefall.

Amadou et Mariam, a married couple who met as students at a school for the blind, have long tried to merge Malian music with funk and blues, and on past recordings they've tipped over on the Western side.

In "Parasomnia," which is also the title of the series, a man who may or may not be asleep has tipped over in his chair, but Sassen has rotated the image so that he almost appears to be in free fall.