Example sentences of "on to the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 2 | Slowly ‘ crunch ’ your head and knees together and then lower your head back on to the floor . |
| 3 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 4 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 5 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 6 | Her husband considered pushing the dog on to the floor , thought better of it , and went sulkily off to bed . |
| 7 | To Erika 's intense annoyance , Fritz promptly accepted the invitation — obeyed the command , rather — and as Rosa moved on to the floor with another boy , she was left feeling abandoned — and foolish . |
| 8 | Erika moved on to the floor , keeping the Lout at a safe distance , but he was not as loutish as his manner suggested . |
| 9 | He began to clean his teeth , jabbing at his mouth , then dropped the toothbrush on to the floor . |
| 10 | A wealthy Texan chicken magnate , Lonnie ‘ Bo ’ Pilgrim , walked on to the floor of the state Senate and handed $10,000 cheques to several legislators during the debate on a bill about compensating workers for job injuries . |
| 11 | The cartridges on the back seat fell on to the floor . |
| 12 | Lee was fiddling with the bag , opening it again and knocking grain caught in the folds of the sack on to the floor . |
| 13 | He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor . |
| 14 | His whole body felt bruised from the speed at which Doyle had dragged him round and thrown him on to the floor when they heard the shout outside . |
| 15 | Then , very slowly and deliberately , Doyle tore the two halves of the photograph across and across , into a shower of tiny pieces that fell through his fingers on to the floor . |
| 16 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 17 | Stepping forward to get a firmer grip , I trod on the rake whose handle leapt up , giving me a nasty crack on the brow and a making me stagger , knocking a bottle of systemic insecticide on to the floor , where it shattered and spread a nauseating puddle at my feet . |
| 18 | Alida began to think about where she might go , as she piled sheets and blankets on to the floor . |
| 19 | In reply , Cabochon 's body heaved and he vomited copiously on to the floor . |
| 20 | He put his feet on to the floor and saw that he still had his shoes on . |
| 21 | ‘ There was a lot of blood on his face , dripping on to the floor . |
| 22 | Mr Neil Lancaster , who was drinking in the Swan Wine Bar in Leadenhall Market , half a mile from the scene of the explosion , said glass lampshades were thrown from the ceiling on to the floor . |
| 23 | Then he hauled himself up over the Zodiac 's port tube and rolled on to the floor slats . |
| 24 | Alex threw himself on to the floor and rolled over and over shouting , ‘ I do n't want her ! |
| 25 | It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ . |
| 26 | As he did so , the large puddle of perspiration which had accumulated around his body on the rubber sheet of the bed , slopped on to the floor . |
| 27 | She held the phone to her ear with her shoulder and sat up in bed , pushing the newspapers on to the floor . |
| 28 | He pushes her on to the floor and lies on top of her , nearly smothering her . |
| 29 | She disarmed herself , putting her grenades and pistol down on to the floor , and standing directly in front of the spy hole , but some ten feet away . |
| 30 | Screaming , Nell and the bio-suit Forster had dubbed George rolled on to the floor , locked in an embrace that only ended when Nell hysterically kicked it from her . |