Example sentences of "up from the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 2 | Ludens had picked up from the floor a sketch , acrylic on paper , representing ( perhaps ) a pale human figure emerging from a dark marsh or river . |
| 3 | I could tell you that the eyes were so beautiful they could actually make you feel giddy when he suddenly looked up from the floor and straight at you . |
| 4 | Kneeling can also be used to help the patient get up from the floor ; most patients are taught to do this once they can walk , in case they have a fall . |
| 5 | One of the practical tasks which may be taught to the patient in prone lying is how to get up from the floor . |
| 6 | With your fingers pointing downwards , gently pull each hand alternately straight up from the floor or table . |
| 7 | Sleep covered me like an eiderdown which some invisible nurse had picked up from the floor and put back on the bed . |
| 8 | Getting Up from the Floor |
| 9 | When picking something up from the floor , stand slightly in front and to the side of the object ; then , keeping the head upright , bend the knee and , still looking forward , pick up the object by feel ; do not look down . |
| 10 | Throwing up her hand , Tabitha glimpsed a figure in silhouette rising up from the floor at their very feet . |
| 11 | Old Red looked up from the floor , and glanced at me before answering . |
| 12 | She got up from the floor and sat on Anna 's knee . |
| 13 | Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside . |
| 14 | Benny pulled himself up from the floor with difficulty . |
| 15 | Slowly James Grierson pulled himself up from the floor . |
| 16 | He also does painted constructions , some of which have been known to hang from the ceiling and others to rise up from the floor like tents . |
| 17 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 18 | He just picked the head up from the floor and wiped the blood off a bit and looked at it . |
| 19 | He walked carefully to his seat , picked his little cup up from the floor and went to the room 's single window . |
| 20 | Great ; he could get the little bastard without having to get up from the floor . |
| 21 | The driver , swearing loudly as his passengers picked themselves up from the floor and out of each other 's laps , opened the front door and jumped down to see what had happened to Adam . |
| 22 | I knelt choking , sharp thorns in my throat , acid tears burning my cheeks and dripping down to my young mother 's face , staring up from the floor . |
| 23 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 24 | She mopped the liquid up from the floor with a clean towel , though she knew it meant presently lugging it all the way down to the launderette . |
| 25 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 26 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |