Example sentences of "[verb] from the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , in the morning , a small round table holding an appetising array of titbits rose from the floor a minute or two before Susan and Michael had finished their exercise routine . |
| 2 | She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body . |
| 3 | It rose from the floor , out of the tattered grey wall-to-wall carpeting … |
| 4 | Smith bent over and lifted the remains of the TV cable and plug from the floor . |
| 5 | The music changed to something more up-beat and , as if by mutual consent , they both moved from the floor , weaving their way through the crowd in search of a space . |
| 6 | they 'd like , like them to come from the floor and not from another from a committee member says , yeah I sponsor Billy , and another committee member says I |
| 7 | The Managing Director 's Office , having moved from the floor above , is now part of the new complex situated alongside the Chairman 's office . |
| 8 | Are protruding from the floor . |
| 9 | I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ? |
| 10 | ‘ But , Richard , ’ a voice came from the floor . |
| 11 | It is usual to use boards large enough to reach from the floor to the ceiling as the fewer joints you have the smoother the wall finish will be . |
| 12 | How , how it had been Mark is you can see from the floor here , there was a wall across here |
| 13 | Cos our cleaners wo n't clean if it 's erm occupied or not everything is cleaned from the floor they wo n't change the bed sheets unless you 've actually taken them off and |
| 14 | At one point I had pretty yellow fungi growing from the floor , which was right above a store room to the cafe downstairs ; needless to say , I never ate there . |
| 15 | Since the times of Victorian patronage , explorations have opened up half a mile of underground passages leading from the floor of the cave , but these later discoveries are for experts only : amateurs should venture no further than the bottom of the steps . |
| 16 | His morale was uplifted a few minutes later when the same Minister returned with a gaggle of additional members evidently called from the floor of the House . |
| 17 | After he finished , it is said , a wind suddenly arose from the floor of the desert and blew sand across the spectators . |
| 18 | Questioning from the floor , led by Mr Brook Land , a high-priced London lawyer representing the disgruntled Yehuda Mendelson , revealed that shareholders had not been fully informed of the arrangements between Norton and its chairman , Jimmy Tildesley . |
| 19 | QING blue and white china salvaged from the floor of the South China Sea in 1990 off Vung Tau in Vietnam fetched £2,030,000 at Christie 's in Amsterdam yesterday . |
| 20 | But , on reaching it , it proved to be a good twenty feet taller than it appeared , for it grew from the floor of a protective circular sinkhole , perhaps forty yards across , and with vertical walls about twenty feet deep fringed by tangled thorny-vines and spider 's webs . |
| 21 | In the early days , the band 's self-image was completely true because they would walk from the floor of the club on to the state and then mingle with the punters afterwards . |
| 22 | By the second night I had to be scraped from the floor and dragged two miles to the only shop in the vicinity to buy something which could pass as edible . |
| 23 | The changes include moving the switch console from the floor to the overhead , intercom , starter and radio buttons on the cyclic , eyebrow windows over the windshield and new seats . |
| 24 | A ring of stone has erupted from the floor and left a glowing red ring of clotted blood and red light . |
| 25 | It was the manuscript of Lord Byron 's poem which I had retrieved from the floor on the previous evening . |
| 26 | What are the names of the programme producer and director ? — What is the time of the recording or broadcast ? — Can your spokesman have a preview of other relevant material to be shown on the programme ? — Will your company be able to show its own film , pictures , models or sample products ? — Will there be others appearing in the programme and if so who ? — Will there be a studio audience and will questions be allowed from the floor ? |
| 27 | John wanted the light misty at first , then becoming brighter , but always radiating from a focal point at the back of the stage ; Primavera arising from the floor in white must make a ‘ most phallic ’ effect . |
| 28 | She looked out of the big foyer window , which ran from the floor almost to the ceiling , at the empty pathways and the silent buildings outside . |
| 29 | Some concern was expressed from the floor and the Hon. |
| 30 | Eleven people were then elected from the floor . |