Example sentences of "[vb base] on the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sleep on the floor without mattress or bedcover . |
| 2 | People sleep on the floor or huddle round television sets . |
| 3 | ‘ I sleep on the floor and have a bare house . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She would often get out in the night and sleep on the floor , usually next to us . |
| 5 | So I just sleep on the floor . |
| 6 | At the Kursk station , women in peasant headscarves squat on the floor selling bunches of hot tasting radishes encrusted with soil . |
| 7 | Maybe that 's the type of thing you want on the floor . |
| 8 | Much debate has centred round the relative significance of these interacting factors , and how they may apply to related baboons such as drills which range on the floors of rain forests . |
| 9 | He was out of Birmingham ; not only that , he got himself space on the floor of a flat above the Two ‘ I 's coffee bar in Old Compton Street . |
| 10 | When the organizer shouts ‘ bombs ahead ’ all the children lie on the floor until they hear ‘ all clear ’ . |
| 11 | Lie on the floor on your back ( on the carpet , of course , not on cold concrete or lino ) . |
| 12 | Lie on the floor with knees bent , feet hip-width apart . |
| 13 | Lie on the floor with knees bent and hands placed at either side of your head . |
| 14 | It hurts to sit down , have bath , lie on the floor . |
| 15 | Stanislav 's bones lie on the floor around the study chair in which he died . |
| 16 | I lie on the floor so that they can scuttle over me . |
| 17 | When they feel drained of spiritual energy the students go there and lie on the floor , their bare feet against the granite , to re-charge their batteries . ’ |
| 18 | And then she looked down again at the neatly typed list in the book , open on the floor in front of her . |
| 19 | No no cos it could n't be worse than the one in the girls toilets today seeing as someone shat on the floor |
| 20 | shat on the floor ? |
| 21 | They said , ‘ Get on the floor . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Get on the floor , chest down . |
| 23 | ‘ And when assembly lasts too long they start getting bored and roll on the floor or play Pat-a-cake . ’ |
| 24 | If you do not have a personal alarm then try and shout for help , or bang on the floor or wall . |
| 25 | But if he becomes a nuisance , William , ’ he added , ‘ you bang on the floor and I 'll pick him up . ’ |
| 26 | It was so hot we lay on the floor and watched the wheeling and turning of the planes and the occasional flare-up which told of a kill . |
| 27 | Lay on the floor with legs and knees apart and drawn up , hands lightly clasped behind the head . |
| 28 | The supporting leg can go on spinning on full pointe with that knee bent , as the working one is held in arabesque or attitude and finally sit on the floor . |
| 29 | Children sit on the floor and read books |
| 30 | I go and sit on the floor by the mattress and watch her . |