Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cranston took out his dagger and laid it on the floor beside him . |
| 2 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 3 | TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor . |
| 4 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 5 | The other Rex Mundi , because , of course , it could be no other , rent hair from his head and flung it to the floor where it exploded in small sulphurous puffs of smoke . |
| 6 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 7 | She emerged a couple of minutes later clad in her black leotard , unfolded a blanket and spread it on the floor in the far corner of the bedroom . |
| 8 | And er there used to be these er like Scotch people you know , with kilts , with swords and put them on the floor and dance round the swords and . |
| 9 | He used to clean all our shoes and put them along the floor . |
| 10 | I try and get it out with my fingers , but I ca n't reach it so I pour it into another bowl and put it on the floor for Satan to drink . |
| 11 | He took off her white veil , and then he took off her black dress , and put it on the floor . |
| 12 | Emmie took the tray and put it on the floor . |
| 13 | You can have it in on a block , or , and put it on the floor , a lump and put it on the floor . |
| 14 | You can have it in on a block , or , and put it on the floor , a lump and put it on the floor . |
| 15 | Could you just take the carrycot up and put it on the floor ? |
| 16 | Her daughter , who had turned back to the window on her mother 's entry , sulkily moved a pile of film magazines and dropped them on the floor . |
| 17 | At the bottom of the companionway she struggled out of the wet oilskins and dropped them on the floor in a heap . |
| 18 | George lifted a stack of the day 's and Sunday 's papers none mentioned Miss Tuckey — and dropped them on the floor . |
| 19 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 20 | Gilly swiped the little wet paper across her mouth and dropped it on the floor . |
| 21 | Helen picked it out and dropped it on the floor ; beneath was a tangle of string . |
| 22 | Silently he took the notebook from her nerveless fingers and dropped it on the floor . |
| 23 | ‘ These people got abusive because we would n't take their drugs so I just grabbed this bag of s*** and poured it over the floor . |
| 24 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 25 | Starting in one corner , Helen began to lift garments from pegs and drop them on the floor in a pile — a mack of her father 's , something of Edward 's not worn within living memory , a very ancient corduroy jacket of Dorothy 's , also unused for many a year . |
| 26 | Or is this the time to bring home a few ingots , dig up the cellar and bury them under the floor ? |
| 27 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 28 | He pulled out the bottom drawer , grabbed all the leaflets from the estate agents , all the newspaper cuttings of houses for sale , and threw them on the floor . |
| 29 | On one occasion he called a player into his office , took his hat from the hat-stand and threw it on the floor . |
| 30 | She removed the veil , tore it in two and threw it on the floor . ’ |