Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have the problem facing us of implementing the planned museum extension , i.e. of building the mezzanine floor over our landlord 's garage . |
| 2 | Visitors relax over their evening meals , enjoying the free floor show in the warm evening air . |
| 3 | She left the pages where they lay , one-dimensional flakes littering the murky floor , and she went to stand by the balcony window again . |
| 4 | CBC Regional Offices now occupied the mezzanine floor on the west side of the hotel , where Hilda Wilson was the Senior Secretary . |
| 5 | Bolt Head 's office occupied the top floor of a vast mirror-fronted building in prime-site New York . |
| 6 | Today , the mill is in reasonable condition and , although most of the milling machinery has long been removed , there are a number of overhead drive shafts and wheels still in position as well as the six grain bins which occupy the upper floor . |
| 7 | These collections , along with decorative arts and a number of period rooms , occupy the first floor , parts of which will not reopen until later this year . |
| 8 | When I say the first floor , I 'm talking about the ground floor and the first floor , you know ? |
| 9 | Accompanied by rolls of the drum , the two showgirls used the whole floor to tumble — running , somersaulting , back-flipping — while the whip cracked threateningly around their ankles . |
| 10 | Michael Howells , a painter friend of Nick 's who stencilled the occasional floor and otherwise assisted in certain aspects of window display , found both Ashleys refreshingly open to suggestions , keen to encourage young staff and always trying to give them their first break . |
| 11 | They entered a large garden , which was protected from the heat by the umbrella of a huge and ancient vine , the shadow of whose leaves dappled the paved floor . |
| 12 | Where possible , cover the main floor area in one sheet , or make joins well away from main traffic areas . |
| 13 | The absurd thoughts had got her as far as the foot of that horrible stairway , then she had felt the level floor of another passage beneath her feet . |
| 14 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 15 | Accountants plan to open the top floor of the 50-storey tower to the public . |
| 16 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 17 | The Queen 's suite fills the second floor on the south side . |
| 18 | He booked the second floor of the Ivy restaurant near the theatre and there Lou and Pat , and his closest friends of the moment , would drink endless cups of coffee until the first editions of the paper came out . |
| 19 | Or some of them they cut the whole floor out and weld a new take the floor old car and weld it back in again . |
| 20 | I would have been its curator , and would have had the top floor to myself ’ . |
| 21 | Map 12 shows the first floor of the Castle , and Map 13 shows the higher floors of the Great Tower . |
| 22 | The small Irishman had just sprinkled the wooden floor with water to keep down the dust and was briskly sweeping the warped boards with a long-bristled broom when Patrick arrived . |
| 23 | Eight other items followed including an ‘ oriental ’ item from Kent , brollies as equipment ( and how effectively ) from Norfolk and four youngsters from Surrey managed to cover the vast floor area of the sports centre with a lively item using novel equipment — batons with rubber balls at each end . |
| 24 | ‘ What we have in mind ’ he said ‘ is some panelling to cover the raised floor of the bell tower and some windows about that to give visual contact between the bell ringers and the vicar . ’ |
| 25 | I 've wiped this I 'll have washed the whole floor . |
| 26 | He 's got the whole floor . |
| 27 | You stay away from my you 've got the whole floor full of butter . |
| 28 | I am instructed to enquire whether you would agree to recommence trading there , as you did six years ago , using the premises as a studio and dark-room , and as a shop for the sale of photographic goods — and occupying the upper floor for domestic purposes . |
| 29 | She and her husband Louis , a garage owner , had bought the upper floor from a Jewish family and were bringing up their four children there . |
| 30 | There are such plains , but the typical profile of the seabed is one that contains gigantic mountain ranges , innumerable equally huge volcanoes , and gorges of a depth never dreamed of furrowing the deep-sea floor . |