Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [art] floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 2 | It 's gravity that pulls you down and presses you to the floor . |
| 3 | I was engrossed in these thoughts and just about to drip it on the top of my head as I had seen Sally do when , from nowhere , a hand knocked me to the floor , spilling the contents of the bottle . |
| 4 | He eases me to the floor . |
| 5 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 6 | ‘ They pushed me to the floor and stuck what I thought was the gun to my knee-caps and threatened to blow them off if I moved . ’ |
| 7 | Hold this position for 2 seconds , then slowly lower them to the floor . |
| 8 | Anyone who had drugs on them dropped them to the floor . |
| 9 | An example saw the head of the household getting out of his bed at midnight on 13th May , filling his mouth with black beans and then spitting them to the floor , saying : |
| 10 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 11 | The two prisoners , in their yellow raincoats , tried to get to the door , but the men in white knocked them to the floor and handcuffed their hands behind their backs . |
| 12 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 13 | The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman . |
| 14 | She felt an urge to fell him to the floor of the car , strike his face and hurt him as she was hurting inside . |
| 15 | The man with the shotgun hit him with the butt of the weapon , driving it deep into his stomach , doubling him over , dropping him to the floor . |
| 16 | Let me breathe then , ’ she laughed , giving him a big hug before putting him to the floor . |
| 17 | Smiling shakily back and in response to his urging , she sank with him to the floor . |
| 18 | With these words the forty-eight-year-old accounts clerk leaped at Quigley 's throat and , pinning him to the floor , started to bang his head on the dust-sheets that shrouded the household 's £700 Persian carpet . |
| 19 | He could see Kathleen in front of the treatment table , clutching a stitch-cutter like a lifeline , and as the man lunged at her he threw himself forward and grappled with him , falling with him to the floor . |
| 20 | TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor . |
| 21 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 22 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 23 | Her movements then are equally purposeful but they are constricted and withdrawn , so that her father 's contemptuous rejection of her pleas and his throwing her to the floor seem the proper outcome of what in his eyes is sheer disobedience . |
| 24 | She knew that he wanted to beat her to the floor . |
| 25 | Anne tried to get up , pulling on a coat , but Nina was still pinning her to the floor . |
| 26 | He eased her to the floor and squatted beside her , rubbing her shoulders to help her arms relax . |
| 27 | But when the frail widow let the man into her home to shelter , he knocked her to the floor and put her through a savage attack . |
| 28 | The victim claimed that the Canadian bullion dealer had ‘ slapped her , pinned her to the floor and ripped off her trousers ’ . |
| 29 | His eyes scanned her bare fingers and returned to her face , their icy glitter freezing her to the floor . |
| 30 | They stuffed a sock into her mouth , pushed her inside and kicked her to the floor breaking her ankle and wrist . |