Example sentences of "it [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wanted to hear all that stuff about nipples and erections and squeezing and pushing — how we fell onto the bed and nearly crashed it through the floor ? |
| 2 | 2 Straighten left leg out behind you , keeping it off the floor . |
| 3 | ‘ Unless you want to scoop it off the floor , there 's no coffee . ’ |
| 4 | Getting him to eat was no problem , but preventing him throwing his food around or trampling it into the floor was . |
| 5 | He took a piece of sugar from the table and pushed it along the floor towards Louisa . |
| 6 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 7 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 8 | I reached down and picked up the empty wine bottle and smashed it to the floor . |
| 9 | Harold threw it to the floor , leant back and closed his eyes . |
| 10 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
| 11 | Bandsaw out the seat leaving a couple of ‘ ears ’ to screw it to the floor or a baseboard . |
| 12 | She was pure Romany as she pulled off her cap , flung it to the floor , and stamped her foot . |
| 13 | He shrugged the shirt off , flung it to the floor , unfastened the waist of the immaculate beige trousers , disposed of the rest of his clothes with a cool composure which sent tiny shivers all over the heated surface of her body . |
| 14 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 15 | that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought . |
| 16 | The other Rex Mundi , because , of course , it could be no other , rent hair from his head and flung it to the floor where it exploded in small sulphurous puffs of smoke . |
| 17 | We gently lowered it to the floor . |
| 18 | Hannele pushed it to the floor . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes … this is what I want … this … ’ and they were both shaking as he pushed the thin green silk dress from her body , throwing it to the floor , and came back to her at once , saying thickly , ‘ Give me everything … make love with me … make love ! ’ and he kissed her deeply , making her excitement deeper , hotter , until she was moving against him , delirious , her body almost nude save for thin silk briefs . |
| 20 | I fill up his new dish to the top and stick it on the floor . |
| 21 | I try and get it out with my fingers , but I ca n't reach it so I pour it into another bowl and put it on the floor for Satan to drink . |
| 22 | They just chuck it on the floor . |
| 23 | If you just chuck it on the floor , then someone s got to come round alter you and pick it up . |
| 24 | Taking the purple book off the pillow and laying it on the floor , he had tried to think logically . |
| 25 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 26 | Gilly swiped the little wet paper across her mouth and dropped it on the floor . |
| 27 | I manage to knock it on the floor , where the unwrapped chocs go on a neighbourhood tour . |
| 28 | She emptied it on the floor , and picked out the junkie kit . |
| 29 | She laid it on the floor of the car . |
| 30 | On one occasion he called a player into his office , took his hat from the hat-stand and threw it on the floor . |