Example sentences of "them [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good thing it 's Curtius , ’ Magda said , ‘ if'n he blows his brains out , at least we wo n't be all day scraping them off the floor . |
| 2 | Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night . |
| 3 | Well why would n't they take them underneath the floor ? |
| 4 | Or is this the time to bring home a few ingots , dig up the cellar and bury them under the floor ? |
| 5 | When they had eaten breakfast , Jack ushered them into the garage , know the car , and pushed them onto the floor , behind the driver 's seat . |
| 6 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 7 | I think if you can calf them and then put them onto the floor I think when there are sides that they can feed for themselves more there would be nothing wrong with a floor byre at all really . |
| 8 | He used to clean all our shoes and put them along the floor . |
| 9 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 10 | I chuck them on the floor and kick at them . |
| 11 | I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair . |
| 12 | He pulled out the bottom drawer , grabbed all the leaflets from the estate agents , all the newspaper cuttings of houses for sale , and threw them on the floor . |
| 13 | She fumbled , dropping them on the floor and picking them up , sorrying wildly , before shoving them onto the rack with the others . |
| 14 | Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears . |
| 15 | He stood in the middle of the living room and took off all his clothes , leaving them on the floor where they fell ; then he inspected his naked body , front , back and sides , in the full-length mirror that he had on his living room wall . |
| 16 | She kept walking round her box , sighing , and picking bits out of her haynet and dropping them on the floor . |
| 17 | When she felt the time was right , she took the cushions from the couch , arranged them on the floor and asked me to lie face down . |
| 18 | My mother would take the three heavy cushions from the hide sofa and lay them on the floor . |
| 19 | By the early 1830s the very ‘ glut ’ of petitions so held up the normal business of the day that , although an exceptional petition like that of the ladies could make an impression , the House of Commons acted to refer petitions to a committee and deny immediate speech on them on the floor of the House . |
| 20 | She herself paints abstract designs on an L- or U-shaped canvas , and leaves them on the floor or wraps them round a pillar . |
| 21 | I came home , put them on the floor and they virtually sorted themselves into two piles . |
| 22 | She pushed them down and left them on the floor . |
| 23 | And er there used to be these er like Scotch people you know , with kilts , with swords and put them on the floor and dance round the swords and . |
| 24 | Starting in one corner , Helen began to lift garments from pegs and drop them on the floor in a pile — a mack of her father 's , something of Edward 's not worn within living memory , a very ancient corduroy jacket of Dorothy 's , also unused for many a year . |
| 25 | He rolled them on the floor , growling in mock fury , and they giggled . |
| 26 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 27 | Her daughter , who had turned back to the window on her mother 's entry , sulkily moved a pile of film magazines and dropped them on the floor . |
| 28 | At the bottom of the companionway she struggled out of the wet oilskins and dropped them on the floor in a heap . |
| 29 | George lifted a stack of the day 's and Sunday 's papers none mentioned Miss Tuckey — and dropped them on the floor . |
| 30 | Did you drop them on the floor ? |