Example sentences of "to the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detritus had stuck to the pitted surface in a wide streaky band as it slid lumpily from chest height to the floor . |
| 2 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 3 | Everyone knows that if Hebrews see ham they fall writhing to the floor and all their teeth drop out . |
| 4 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 5 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 6 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 7 | But as they sank to the floor , naturally , Jay sensed a tension in Lucy . |
| 8 | She ripped her clothes to the floor . |
| 9 | A few overblown petals drift ed to the floor . |
| 10 | Lower your body to the floor but do not touch it , and repeat . |
| 11 | Do not crouch to the floor . |
| 12 | Bend the knees until the thighs are parallel to the floor , keeping the head up . |
| 13 | Bend your supporting leg until the thigh is parallel to the floor and then push until the leg is straight again . |
| 14 | Stand with your right leg about 60cm ( 2ft ) in front of your left one , and slowly lower your body forwards until your right thigh is parallel to the floor . |
| 15 | Squats — bend the knees until the thighs are parallel to the floor |
| 16 | Hold this position for 2 seconds , then slowly lower them to the floor . |
| 17 | Slowly ‘ crunch ’ your head and knees together and then lower your head back on to the floor . |
| 18 | Gradually straighten the legs until you are standing upright , then lower slowly to the floor without jerking . |
| 19 | Slowly lower your heels to the floor , gaining full stretch . |
| 20 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 21 | A sudden change of éaulement , an unusual turn in-out of legs or arms , or quick jumps up and then down to the floor followed by a roll over or even a somersault can accentuate the particular place that unusual movement has in the whole design . |
| 22 | Her movements then are equally purposeful but they are constricted and withdrawn , so that her father 's contemptuous rejection of her pleas and his throwing her to the floor seem the proper outcome of what in his eyes is sheer disobedience . |
| 23 | In one of the photographs we show the latter being used to cut off a water pipe close to the floor . |
| 24 | According to his owner , who witnessed the spectacle , Jessie rose gracefully toward the ceiling like a space shuttle and , after lingering in mid-air for what seemed an eternity , crashed to the floor and fled the house with a speed and agility the owner found quite amazing . |
| 25 | Like Hardy , Lewis started impressively , knocking Garber to the floor with two thundering rights to the chin inside a minute . |
| 26 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 27 | As we all dropped to the floor the shifty-eyed character bolted out of the front door and into a cloud of dust and pieces of masonry , caused by the explosions . |
| 28 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 29 | The ceiling sloped down tightly to the floor , making dark shadowy edges which were well nigh impossible to clean , and three odd narrow passages ran to the three dormer windows , which cast odd blocks of light into the main spaces of the room . |
| 30 | 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 . |