Example sentences of "[prep] the floor [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 2 | As he did so , his eye fell on a small brass-rimmed slot barely half an inch long , set into the floor next to the fallen cartridge . |
| 3 | Well it depends in in that particular one yes , er in other areas there was interest from the floor last night about local people who would like to become specials so one or two forms were handed out , application forms , |
| 4 | The keys crashed to the floor next to Gedanken ; the piece of paper followed , slowly fluttering from side to side like a snowflake . |
| 5 | But if I can put my thinking erm on the floor first , it seems to me that vacant Normal vacancies as Mr has described them , are a function of people moving from one house to another . |
| 6 | and cos I just left it screwed up on the floor last night and then well I walked out the door without my skirt . |
| 7 | Carla was cross-legged on the floor next to the coffee table on which she was playing Patience with Sara 's cards . |
| 8 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 9 | After a couple of deep breaths , she felt well enough to open her eyes , and as the mists cleared she focused on a most peculiar tableau : Jackie Tiptoe sitting on the floor next to Rose Williams , holding her hand and murmuring in her ear . |
| 10 | They found it difficult to rouse him and on seeing the bottle of tablets on the floor next to him , called an ambulance to take him to hospital . |
| 11 | A woman should place her handbag on the floor next to her to avoid the possibility of sitting defensively crouched over it on her lap . |
| 12 | The white dog lay on the floor next to him . |
| 13 | Kiah sat down on the floor next to Rilla . |
| 14 | An electric fan heater thrummed away on the floor next to the table while the two bars of the electric fire in the hearth burned like red-hot pokers . |
| 15 | Bernice and the Doctor entered the monitor room in time to help Cheryl stretch Miles out on the floor next to an open medkit , while Bishop probed intently into the racks of recording systems . |
| 16 | The proprietor thrust aside the plastic tassels that filled the doorway through to the back of the dry cleaner 's and dumped his shopping bag on the floor next to an ironing board . |
| 17 | They certainly should not have been letting him curl up on the floor next to Badger . |
| 18 | There was a large cardboard box on the floor next to the fridge . |