Example sentences of "[noun sg] under [art] floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 2 | All that was found in the tomb chamber when it was excavated was the apparently hasty , late burial in a pit under the floor of an old man and a child . |
| 3 | There was a scratching under the floor . |
| 4 | In 1956 , with the interior of the church nearing completion , the architect , Diego Méndez , constructed a lead-lined tomb under the floor in the transept , behind the high altar . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a wine storage under the floor of your dining car , ’ he said with growing relish . |
| 6 | It is not a difficult job ; it merely involves removing airbricks in one side of the house and inserting a pipe under the floor and a small fan unit on the outside . |
| 7 | In some rooms , the space under the floor was heated by the hypocaust system . |
| 8 | I need to gain access to the space under the floor . |
| 9 | No one wanted to be in the chilly space under the floor when there was the warmth and light of the office for the having . |
| 10 | This incident of the bitten car , presented explicitly as ‘ a challenge to society ’ , has no tonal affinity whatever with Raskolnikov 's murder , its home is with the underground man sticking his tongue out ; the hesitant backward movement towards the world under the floor is also a forward fumble towards Stavrogin and The Possessed . |
| 11 | The nomes squeezed their way through a narrow , cable-hung world under the floor . |
| 12 | Dorcas slipped into the familiar gloom under the floor and padded along until he found the switch . |
| 13 | Usually they consisted of a suite of three adjoining rooms — cold , warm and hot-heated by the hypocaust system under the floor . |
| 14 | A huge hand reached down and put a little tray on the packed earth under the floor . |