1. I up-ended the crate and sat on it.

2. They sat on upended wooden boxes.

3. The bicycle lay upended in a ditch.

4. He upended the beer, and swallowed.

5. If you upend the box it will take less space.

6. She upended the chessboard halfway through the game because she was losing.

7. She upended the bucket.

8. Louis upended the bundle into the rainwater-butt.

9. She deserves better than to be upended by a drunken oaf who seems incapable of controlling his social behaviour.

10. Upending rocks in the muddy cove(), I uncover fighting green crabs that rise up startled and scurry off into the muck.

11. Ancient women sat in darkened eighteenth- and nineteenth-century doorways, heads covered in kerchiefs or round-brimmed hats like up-ended pudding basins.

12. He upended his opponent.

13. He climbed out leaving the car upended on its roof.

14. Rachaela put the portions into a dish and upended a can of Heinz tomato soup over them to make a casserole.

15. And when Chris Allen was upended in the area, United probably thought they were home and dry.

16. When he met Eileen Ryan she was sitting on a bank with a dazed look, her bicycle up-ended in a ditch.

17. They also like to up-end push and pull toys for imaginary mending, and wheels can be spun at different speeds.

18. If successful, we will upend our main competitors.

19. We'll have to upend the sofa to get it through the door.

20. And that, he and others say, could upend our notions of culpability, crime and punishment.

21. Services like Google Wallet likely won't upend the business models of commercial banks, but could alter the way customers interact with them.

22. This would upend the law and drive the gun lobby bonkers.

23. Helping lead the effort to upend thousands of years of Chinese tradition is Xu Moxiao, a man determined to lengthen the customary autumn fighting season.

24. Letters and numbers set at random around its perimeter and an upended wine glass in the centre.

25. I was in Heaven, smelling everything, grinning from east to west with the salivary promise of an upended cornucopia.

26. Revealing, among other things, three large man-sized casks on deck, upended, with lids.

27. The reporter notices, this " Mi Long " the bed is but lengthen, lathe bed is puce, steeliness structure, the he ad of a bed and bed end have the steel tube of 11 upend to forme ach iron column each.

28. For 40 years, Karten and colleagues have worked to upend this thinking.

29. Even without the startling Chinese scores, the latest findings upend some traditional notions about education and should give pause for thought to policy makers everywhere.

30. To what extent it is capable of leveraging these powers to upend Western hegemony of technology is a truly fascinating question.

31. So what happened in 1940, decades before the large-scale influx of women into the workplace, to upend the multigenerational tradition?

32. It had taken the better part of a decade , but Reed Hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry.

33. We'll have to upend the cupboard to get it through the door.

34. But perhaps no animal has done more to upend conventional notions than Alex, an African gray parrot.

35. Last week's news generated headlines like: Microbes Upend Decades of Science, ... Microbes Suggest Extraterrestrial Life Possible, ... Lake Bacteria Seen as Model for Life in Space.