Example sentences of "up [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry Venables was left picking his side up off the floor . |
| 2 | Terry Venables was left picking his players up off the floor after Tranmere , who have not lost at Prenton Park in 12 months , achieved a worthy draw against their lofty visitors . |
| 3 | She picked his anorak up off the floor and stood there with it over her arm , leaning against his chair . |
| 4 | He picked the clothes up off the floor and put them away in the wardrobe , and found the President a clean pair of slacks and a shirt before sweeping up the broken glass . |
| 5 | Still in a larky mood , she began to lift her daughter up off the floor . |
| 6 | He picked the hat up off the floor and put it on his own head . |
| 7 | ( Wringing her apron in mock indignation ) That 's the third time this week I 've picked his Good polyester-dacron trousers up off the floor and Hung them up in their crease . |
| 8 | There rose , and she looked and looked with her needles suspended , there curled up off the floor of the mind , rose from the lake of one 's being , a mist , a bride to meet her lover . |
| 9 | He then got up off the floor and threatened to hit the labour master with his boots in his hand . |
| 10 | Plenty of guys in this racket have found themselves in front of a jury for a lot less than picking a dame up off the floor . |
| 11 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 12 | I got out of bed gah ! — and then picked myself up off the floor . |
| 13 | Kadan scooped the twins up off the floor . |
| 14 | This deed somehow necessitated a second manoeuvre , that of picking myself up off the floor . |
| 15 | Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor . |
| 16 | I picked it up off the floor , and it looked perfectly new . ’ |
| 17 | Paul gets up off the floor and sits on the bed . |
| 18 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 19 | She got up off the floor and went into the kitchen . |
| 20 | As she screamed , she felt arms grab hold of her and pick her up off the floor . |
| 21 | Let them do what they like as long as you 're not well they do , they kill you , kill you stone dead er them French vaches Cos , see you go in down here you see , where you 've got ta jump up to get out got ta jump up off the floor , you got ta jump up about four feet to get out see , they were n't just like |
| 22 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 23 | It 'll be some heavyweight challenge for Town to pick themselves up off the floor and fight their way out of trouble . |
| 24 | Let's see how quickly you can jump up off the floor . |
| 25 | cover up off the floor please so I can get near the back door ? |
| 26 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 27 | Erm came and shower occasionally and if you bath , I said to him , do your mother ever , to pick a , a damp towel up off the floor , but , did you have a bath , and all , |
| 28 | And I said the thing is , she 'll pick him up off the floor or she 'll pick him up out the basket and say if you do n't give me some money for some drugs I 'll chuck him on the floor ! |
| 29 | Well I er come in , picked all stuff up off the floor lit the fire and I think that were it . |
| 30 | Will you pick dungy up off the floor . |