Example sentences of "[adv] over the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petals of the flowers had dropped , and spilled brown and carelessly over the floor . |
| 2 | He 'd come his whack and there was this trail of spunk behind him all over the floor . |
| 3 | We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor . |
| 4 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 5 | The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor . |
| 6 | He bled … he tried to reach the door … there was blood all over the floor … pints of it . |
| 7 | In the Gents there is sick all over the floor . |
| 8 | When I see the squalor of your room which is filthy , and has your clothes all over the floor , frankly I get fed up ’ . |
| 9 | Piles of books all over the floor : Agatha Christie , Dick Francis , P. D. James . |
| 10 | Third : dog-shit all over the floor . |
| 11 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 12 | A moment later , the contents were all over the floor , and the woman gave a cluck of annoyance . |
| 13 | He gave a loud moan and with a sudden retch , vomited all over the floor . |
| 14 | Broken glass and dishes were all over the floor mixed with what had been served for dinner — steak , corn and potatoes . |
| 15 | ‘ George strips the wallpaper , takes the covers off books and spreads his hay all over the floor in one of our rooms , ’ said Mrs Stallard . |
| 16 | We do n't want that all over the floor . ’ |
| 17 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 18 | In the punishment cells last week , Rudakov , who is the Political Officer , kicked over a man 's slop bucket and the water ran all over the floor . |
| 19 | And another time it was all pouring all over the floor |
| 20 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 21 | One particularly spivvy dealer during an official Harvard Securities party urinated all over the floor . |
| 22 | However the cry was raised all over the floor : " They 've removed their team leader " Some thirty young dealers applauded the courage of these two . |
| 23 | She strode through the newspapers all over the floor , some of them with dates from the thirties , even the war . |
| 24 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 25 | Ambulance , thank goodness someone 's remembered , patting this person 's hand , and putting blankets on and reassuring them , telling them everything 's alright , and blood all over the floor , thank god someone 's gone to get the ambulance |
| 26 | Through discussion , with chalk lines and discs all over the floor , a pattern began to emerge . |
| 27 | Drawers littered all over the floor , cushions ripped open . |
| 28 | He left the bathroom in a terrible mess , with water slopped all over the floor and the towel sopping . |
| 29 | He was very dead , and there was blood all over the floor . |
| 30 | But there was so much blood — blood on her red petticoat , blood on her black dress and her white veil , blood on the executioner 's shoes , blood all over the floor . |