Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give the screens extra stability , screw them on to the floor or support them with hooks attached to the wall . |
| 2 | He walked around picking up files , looking at them and then throwing them on to the floor . |
| 3 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 4 | And if you had paper plates people put them down on the floor , inevitably , somebody got drunk and put their plate on the floor , they were probably thinking about something else , and then the beet juice or the goo or whatever , soaked through the paper plate and onto the carpet and you never , never got it out . |
| 5 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 6 | One minute to go and the Director wishes everyone down on the floor good luck , and in time-honoured tradition Verity Lambert leans forward and wishes the Director good luck . |
| 7 | I protested , but only weakly ; I was hysterical , and , I suppose , rather excited too : even when he had me down on the floor , jammed in an uncomfortable position with my head stuck between the pedestal of the wash basin and a slimy floor cloth someone had left lying against the wall , I could still do nothing but laugh . |
| 8 | Just dragged me into the building , threw me down on the floor , made a lot of noise and left . ’ |
| 9 | Alex threw himself on to the floor and rolled over and over shouting , ‘ I do n't want her ! |
| 10 | At any moment and with no warning he 'll throw himself on to the floor and do like a hundred push-ups . |
| 11 | Holly jack-knifed his legs over the side of the bunk , swung himself down to the floor , dropped his feet beside Adimov 's bunk . |
| 12 | She repressed a shudder as he took the bonnet and curled himself down onto the floor holding it daintily between his long fingers — which she had been careful to avoid touching . |
| 13 | Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside . |
| 14 | Benny pulled himself up from the floor with difficulty . |
| 15 | Slowly James Grierson pulled himself up from the floor . |
| 16 | ‘ Blockbuster ! ’ is less satisfactory , however , a bunch of platform-heeled plodders that try in vain to get you on to the floor and dance round your handbag . |
| 17 | It also boasts an hydraulic system which enables a 20-foot pod to be extended to increase the display area and allows the whole vehicle to lower itself down to a floor height of just 18 inches above the ground . |
| 18 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 19 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 20 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 21 | When picking something up from the floor , stand slightly in front and to the side of the object ; then , keeping the head upright , bend the knee and , still looking forward , pick up the object by feel ; do not look down . |
| 22 | Everything out on the floor and now , and now he has to do it , so he did it now , it 's still there like . |
| 23 | You pick them up again you put them back on the door , he chucks them back on the floor . |
| 24 | Absolutely the other tip with black sacks is tip them out on the floor , do not plunge the hand into it you get livestock , and I have actually had teeth . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 27 | He pushes her on to the floor and lies on top of her , nearly smothering her . |
| 28 | He tapped her on the shoulder-Excuse me — and when she turned he took her by the wrist and round the waist , holding her close , whisking her on to the floor . |
| 29 | They stripped the giggling woman , and pushed her on to the floor . |
| 30 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |