Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 31 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 32 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 33 | Instead he offered Lucille his arm and walked her off the floor . |
| 34 | ‘ Delighted , ’ she replied , and followed him onto the floor . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | I reached down and picked up the empty wine bottle and smashed it to the floor . |
| 37 | He took off his jacket with over-exaggerated deliberation , folded it with studied care , and placed it on the floor , parroting a curious sales pitch of clichéd adspeak . |
| 38 | He went to the lavatory , lifted a large tin bath off its wall hook , took it into the bedroom and placed it on the floor . |
| 39 | The Doctor took his hat off and placed it on the floor in the centre of the junction . |
| 40 | She carried the censer carefully over to the bed and placed it on the floor . |
| 41 | He turned the bag upside down and dumped everything onto the floor , and then he did the same for the drawers and for the wardrobe . |
| 42 | With his right hand Quinn twisted a blob of the brown substance off , rolled it into a ball and tossed it across the floor to Zack . |
| 43 | And chuck one on the floor . |
| 44 | My mother would take the three heavy cushions from the hide sofa and lay them on the floor . |
| 45 | All you do is fill the bag with lukewarm water and lay it on the floor . |
| 46 | They 're here and she 's there , after all I was on the point of signing off when Selina started telling me , in accents of alarmingly genuine arousal , about this rich new boyfriend of hers , this transatlantic moneyman , how he took her to hotels and dressed her up and fucked her on the floor like a dog . |
| 47 | So she brings in a whole candelabra and balances it on the floor . |
| 48 | She kept walking round her box , sighing , and picking bits out of her haynet and dropping them on the floor . |
| 49 | the notion of getting hold of a sort of re a perceived object and dropping it on the floor and watching it split into it 's component parts is quite appealing If you take a , if you imagine , you could take an object that you 're perceiving , yes ? |
| 50 | They stuffed a sock into her mouth , pushed her inside and kicked her to the floor breaking her ankle and wrist . |
| 51 | I fill up his new dish to the top and stick it on the floor . |
| 52 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 53 | Taking the purple book off the pillow and laying it on the floor , he had tried to think logically . |
| 54 | She pushed them down and left them on the floor . |
| 55 | ‘ There you go , ’ he said , and stood him on the floor . |
| 56 | When they had eaten breakfast , Jack ushered them into the garage , know the car , and pushed them onto the floor , behind the driver 's seat . |
| 57 | He took a piece of sugar from the table and pushed it along the floor towards Louisa . |
| 58 | She herself paints abstract designs on an L- or U-shaped canvas , and leaves them on the floor or wraps them round a pillar . |
| 59 | It 's gravity that pulls you down and presses you to the floor . |