Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 2 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 3 | Anyone who had drugs on them dropped them to the floor . |
| 4 | The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman . |
| 5 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 6 | Harold threw it to the floor , leant back and closed his eyes . |
| 7 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 8 | The two prisoners , in their yellow raincoats , tried to get to the door , but the men in white knocked them to the floor and handcuffed their hands behind their backs . |
| 9 | I was engrossed in these thoughts and just about to drip it on the top of my head as I had seen Sally do when , from nowhere , a hand knocked me to the floor , spilling the contents of the bottle . |
| 10 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 11 | But when the frail widow let the man into her home to shelter , he knocked her to the floor and put her through a savage attack . |
| 12 | Hold this position for 2 seconds , then slowly lower them to the floor . |
| 13 | The victim claimed that the Canadian bullion dealer had ‘ slapped her , pinned her to the floor and ripped off her trousers ’ . |
| 14 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 15 | I reached down and picked up the empty wine bottle and smashed it to the floor . |
| 16 | TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor . |
| 17 | The man with the shotgun hit him with the butt of the weapon , driving it deep into his stomach , doubling him over , dropping him to the floor . |
| 18 | She felt an urge to fell him to the floor of the car , strike his face and hurt him as she was hurting inside . |
| 19 | He eased her to the floor and squatted beside her , rubbing her shoulders to help her arms relax . |
| 20 | ‘ He turned to face her , brought her to the floor and battered her to death , ’ he said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought . |
| 23 | She was pure Romany as she pulled off her cap , flung it to the floor , and stamped her foot . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
| 27 | We gently lowered it to the floor . |
| 28 | He eases me to the floor . |
| 29 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 30 | His eyes scanned her bare fingers and returned to her face , their icy glitter freezing her to the floor . |