Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could eat off the floor in her house . |
| 2 | On IPE and Fox , in the case of futures trades , the rules are more relaxed and allow the whole order to be filled off the floor provided it is within the minimum fluctuation in the pit at the time . |
| 3 | Because , I suddenly , oh that was even funnier because I was I suddenly went Angie I think we 've got a leak , and it was like all on the , all in my windowsill and sort of like came down and then , luckily , she said she only realized because of what I did last year , leaving my sink on , that it goes through the floor , otherwise , none of what , we would n't have realized . |
| 4 | ‘ Francis has left you well over double what would be regarded as the floor in this case . ’ |
| 5 | Astrological charts , a couple of crystal balls on oddly clawed stands , litters of long-decayed scrolls , and similar items are scattered about the floor , on a couple of tables , and on stands . |
| 6 | There are ropes , buckets and other building materials scattered about the floor of the Wheel Room . |
| 7 | Following her , he gave a soft grunt of laughter at the sight of their clothes still scattered about the floor . |
| 8 | A few cowlings and panels got bent though , having been lifted off the floor and hurled against the hangar wall by the force of the propeller . |
| 9 | He nearly sank through the floor . |
| 10 | Dealing in government bonds , along with dealing in other securities , moved off the floor of the London Stock Market sooner than anticipated and became a wholly screen-based activity . |
| 11 | Hinged doors opening outwards from floor level facilitate easy cleaning and the hutch must be constructed to stand off the floor , preferably on legs , to ensure that urine and surplus drinking water drain away easily so that the floor remains dry . |
| 12 | ‘ Did you fall through the floor too ? ’ |
| 13 | Claudia put her hands to her burning face and wished she could fall through the floor . |
| 14 | In these days of double-glazing and central heating it quite quickly exceeds safety levels , especially on the ground floor where it can be trapped beneath the floor boards . |
| 15 | And because they smell along the floor . |
| 16 | He is conducting a field trip to some of the places where once ‘ black smokers ’ rose above the floor of a long-vanished ocean , depositing their minerals to form the ore mined millenia later . |
| 17 | His head rose above the floor level of the hay-loft in time to see a great deal more of Melody than he had anticipated as she slipped her ragged clothes back on . |
| 18 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 19 | So then he sank onto the floor , to make himself as small as possible so that he could wait out the agony . |
| 20 | Donna tried to raise the .38 , anxious to get a shot at him , but he knocked her hand down and the gun discharged into the floor . |
| 21 | Gaston was occupying a high-backed chair in the place of honour , and she went to stand beside him , watching Marie-Christine , the skirts of her dress looped over her arm , being whirled round the floor by Jacques . |
| 22 | ( To be frank , Alistair had had the same fantasy the previous Friday , at which time , presumably , Offensive from Quasar 13 was still being booted round the floor of the sub post office ) . |
| 23 | Oh Jim we got a big four foot o , you know , opening in the floor , lowering the machines and bringing them up . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It rose from the floor , out of the tattered grey wall-to-wall carpeting … |
| 27 | Smith bent over and lifted the remains of the TV cable and plug from the floor . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | They sleep on the floor without mattress or bedcover . |