Example sentences of "[verb] from the floor " in BNC.
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| 31 | Run : If the adventurers run , their movement is impeded by claws and faces erupting from the floor . |
| 32 | For fourteen years she had delivered the Leader 's speech on the last afternoon of the conference ; she was too old a hand to speak from the floor . |
| 33 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |