Sentence examples for tumbled backwards from inspiring English sources

So, wearing a protective Lycra catsuit that would make Terry Wogan blush, I perched on the side of the trawler and tumbled backwards into Blue Pearl Bay, beneath the rocky cliffs of Hayman Island in the Whitsundays.

It was not complete until the final two seconds, when James went out of his way to corral a defensive rebound, then tumbled backwards into the cameras along the baseline.

Tréluyer, starting from fifth on the grid, had trouble engaging a gear from the start and tumbled backwards through the pack, while at the same time Mark Webber in the No17 Porsche leapt into a strong position from pole, pulling out a ten-second lead by the second hour.

"Then I could see a young lady tumbling backwards off her bike.

In almost every race, one of the four contestants does not make it over and tumbles backwards in abject humiliation.

An old person, neither male nor female, but somehow both, is tumbling backwards down a flight of stairs.

From that time on, he was free from fear of ever tumbling backwards into the pages of a novel by Gissing.

It was an Armani cape that provided the wardrobe malfunction at last week's Brit awards that left Madonna tumbling backwards on to the stage.

Cassio deserved his own good fortune on the offside, not least for the saves he had made before the interval from Cahill – albeit as he sat on the ball while tumbling backwards – and Victor Moses.

You can see from the old photographs that half the time that we were clearing, you'd pull out a weed and end up tumbling backwards down the hill".

The house had shrunk around me to a quarter of the size it ought to be, but if I crouched down low enough it was as if I could tumble backwards down the Alice in Wonderland rabbit-hole.