Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reporter 's eyes flickered down to the floor . |
| 2 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 3 | A waterfall of yellowing snaps fell out onto the floor and Mollie picked one up . |
| 4 | Sometimes the bravest rats ran out onto the floor or across the tops of the pictures . |
| 5 | There were nights when stone hot-water bottles left out on the floor froze solid . |
| 6 | There was a long silence broken only by the ticking of the grandfather clock and the sighs and movements of the dogs stretched out on the floor . |
| 7 | At one point , when some pages Spilled out on the floor , he remarked , as if it were an integral part of his commentary , that ‘ some people ’ did not realize the importance of properly securing a typescript . |
| 8 | In another , stalactites reached down to the floor and they walked through a forest of pillars . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On these mornings her freckled face was blanched , and she sat motionless at the breakfast table , staring sightlessly into a cup of cold , wrinkle-skinned coffee , while her long red hair gradually slithered out of the nest of twists she had knotted it into , and hairgrips pinged out over the floor and the table around her . |
| 11 | The two human parcels screwed up on the floor could have fared a whole lot worse . |
| 12 | Girls passed out on the floor ; ambulances were called . |
| 13 | The tray in the human 's hands crashed on to the floor in front of it . |
| 14 | Most of our clothes ended up on the floor , and Corporal Fleicher , a tall German , went round hitting people in the stomach to see how firm their abdominal muscles were . |