Example sentences of "down [prep] [art] floor and " in BNC.

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1 I pulled out of the eight , stamped the accelerator down through the floor and drove for a gate .
2 He did , but exactly what was said I I ca n't recall I I was just concerned at that time to er to get the man safely down onto the floor and secure him .
3 She sat down on the floor and took great heaving breaths as though she had come up a hill with a burden beyond her strength .
4 With a meekness that made her feel mean , he knelt down on the floor and started to gather his cuttings together .
5 Mouse flopped down on the floor and started to giggle .
6 The children lie down on the floor and they have to stay absolutely still .
7 She sat down on the floor and went to work .
8 He sat down on the floor and , taking my hand in his , curled his fingers like bindweed around mine .
9 At last , tired and unhappy , Alice sat down on the floor and cried .
10 After a couple of hours , Zeno had simply lain down on the floor and gone to sleep .
11 When we were kill-pricking we used to put a sack down on the floor and lie on our bellies using a bodkin to clear holes .
12 She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase .
13 She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls .
14 He just put the Thing down on the floor and sat down next to it , and watched them .
15 But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating .
16 Nicola sat down on the floor and slowly rolled over on to her back .
17 so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite
18 Arthur will you stop jumping all over me , get down on the floor and play
19 And then we went down on the floor and he went over to Bernard and he says , och !
20 The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook .
21 He leapt down to the floor and made two gigantic walls of books , trapping Mr Fractor between them .
22 Anyone who has difficulty in getting down to the floor and up is safer exercising on a firm mattress .
23 In another , stalactites reached down to the floor and they walked through a forest of pillars .
24 He reached down to the floor and folded back the carpet .
25 Slowly , he swung his feet down to the floor and sat up , experimentally flexing a pair of broad shoulders to ease an apparent tension .
26 Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster .
27 I went down to the floor and said to him : ‘ Come into the control room and I 'll play you both ‘ takes ’ , with all their faults and imperfections .
28 And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those .
29 She looked down at the floor and made the slightest movement with one hand .
30 There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more …
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