Example sentences of "[prep] [art] floor [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trees had crossed half of the floor now and the nearest one — Fenella could see now that it had been a Larch , elegant and slender — was already inching its way across the slimy black pool of the Melanisms , creating a kind of bridge . |
| 2 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 3 | The instant the right leg goes out , the right hand is dropped to the floor so that the body is supported by both hands . |
| 4 | His large family lived on the floor above and scampered between hotel and home by climbing through a window and up a fire escape . |
| 5 | All down the corridor people were propping themselves up against the walls , or lying on the floor singly or in couples . |
| 6 | She was enjoying herself so much that she stayed on the floor longer than she should have done and it was only when she saw Mrs Freer making furious faces at her from the doorway that she turned and glided back . |
| 7 | He helped Joshua into the cart , sitting him on the floor again but this time leaning up against a wing , and tucked the rug under his legs . |
| 8 | for the sake of , for the sake of a few bands that we do , I mean most of the bands on the local level are used to playing in pubs so they just had to play on the floor anyway and the rest of it |
| 9 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 10 | A pail of cold water for washing was set on the floor so that performers had to bend over to use it . |
| 11 | Jimmy returned with arms full of torches , switching each on and positioning them in the brackets of the huge copper boilers , or on the floor so that surreal fans of light were cast against the dirty plaster walls . |
| 12 | I lie on the floor so that they can scuttle over me . |
| 13 | Indeed , it floats about in fluid so its physical position varies , but every location along the chromosome is precisely addressed in terms of linear order along the length of the chromosome , just as every location along a computer tape is precisely addressed , even if the tape is strewn around the floor rather than being neatly rolled up . |