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Examples
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New York, US, 2006: Ford Explorer sits nose-first inside a 15ft by 20ft-wide sinkhole in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn.
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The buff plowed nose-first into the ground with my third shot, now from about 90 yards, and after Palmer was satisfied the animal was dead and had given instructions to the skinners of my wants -- he proceeded to sit with my wife under an acacia tree and eat lunch.
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PETE WALKED DOWN the road in the dark, under the pink stucco arch painted with roses, past the closed-down drive-in theater and the circular building with service windows constructed to resemble a bulging cheeseburger and the three Cadillacs that appeared to be buried nose-first in the hardpan.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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I refer specifically to "...drove her 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier around a barricade warning of a washout and ended up nose-first in a 4-foot-deep hole in the center of the road."
Gray jhetley 2009
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Video footage of the accident showed the plane's rear wheels hitting the tarmac before the aircraft became airborne briefly and then slammed nose-first into the runway and rolled onto its left wing.
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PETE WALKED DOWN the road in the dark, under the pink stucco arch painted with roses, past the closed-down drive-in theater and the circular building with service windows constructed to resemble a bulging cheeseburger and the three Cadillacs that appeared to be buried nose-first in the hardpan.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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PETE WALKED DOWN the road in the dark, under the pink stucco arch painted with roses, past the closed-down drive-in theater and the circular building with service windows constructed to resemble a bulging cheeseburger and the three Cadillacs that appeared to be buried nose-first in the hardpan.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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Video footage of the accident showed the plane's rear wheels hitting the tarmac before the aircraft became airborne briefly and then slammed nose-first into the runway and rolled onto its left wing.
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The plane must have floated somewhat, or we'd have gone down nose-first; instead we belly-flopped onto a runway below.
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Unable to avoid the moment, Prost locked wheels with Gerhard Bergers Benetton before becoming airborne briefly and crashing nose-first on to the kerbing on the outside of the corner.
Chequered Conflict Maurice Hamilton 2008
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