She says she comforted the boy as his head swelled and he bent over, throwing up.

WSJ: The Perils of Texting While Parenting

When he bent over to catch his breath, he saw that his inner thighs were chafed an angry red.

NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

He always wore snow-white T-shirts, black pants and black penny loafer shoes, and as he blithely dog-cussed his brother he bent over, took off one loafer and dumped several neatly folded bills into his hand.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Frogtown'

When Hugh Martin, the chief executive of gene sequencing start-up Pacific Biosciences, discovered that he had multiple myeloma, he bent over backward to disclose the fact to his entire company in excruciating detail, and also to his investors, his business partners, and Fortune, which ran a story about the way he handled the decision.

FORBES: The Medical Mismeasure of Steve Jobs

My father, bent over at the waist the way he was, looked like a crane there to either lift me up with its hook or wreck me with its heavy ball.

NPR: Chapter 1

And yet from the day he announced the start of his review, Mr Robertson has bent over backwards to allay fears that a Labour government would run down Britain's defences.

ECONOMIST: George Robertson punches above his weight