Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good thing it 's Curtius , ’ Magda said , ‘ if'n he blows his brains out , at least we wo n't be all day scraping them off the floor . |
| 2 | Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night . |
| 3 | Then we 'll have to tip someone on the floor . |
| 4 | All those comics and things of yours on the floor down there want moving please tonight . |
| 5 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 6 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 7 | He could remember them discussing it over the ironing and himself on the floor playing with his soldiers behind the sofa and keeping very quiet about it because it was way past his bedtime . |
| 8 | She was aware of him settling himself on the floor in the corner by the bench , then stiffened when he picked up one of her finished pieces . |
| 9 | Gerard threw himself on the floor . |
| 10 | Richard threw himself on the floor screaming ! |
| 11 | to put his coat on , I picked him up and tried to carry him , and he just flung himself around so hard I had to put him down and he immediately flung himself on the floor again ! |
| 12 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 13 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 14 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 15 | The wizard pulled himself across the floor , painfully , and whispered , ‘ What the hell was that ? ’ |
| 16 | Well why would n't they take them underneath the floor ? |
| 17 | Keep your left knee turned out to the side , and place your hands through the gap in front of you on the floor . |
| 18 | behind you on the floor . |
| 19 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 20 | It 's gravity that pulls you down and presses you to the floor . |
| 21 | As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint . |
| 22 | From the other side of the room , from the shadows of the wood-store where they had entered , something was dragging itself across the floor towards them … |
| 23 | Or is this the time to bring home a few ingots , dig up the cellar and bury them under the floor ? |
| 24 | I know that as certain as I know no one will ask me onto the floor tonight . ’ |
| 25 | When they had eaten breakfast , Jack ushered them into the garage , know the car , and pushed them onto the floor , behind the driver 's seat . |
| 26 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 27 | I think if you can calf them and then put them onto the floor I think when there are sides that they can feed for themselves more there would be nothing wrong with a floor byre at all really . |
| 28 | He used to clean all our shoes and put them along the floor . |
| 29 | He turned the bag upside down and dumped everything onto the floor , and then he did the same for the drawers and for the wardrobe . |
| 30 | Holly had picked a discarded one from the floor . |