Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 2 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 3 | ‘ Blockbuster ! ’ is less satisfactory , however , a bunch of platform-heeled plodders that try in vain to get you on to the floor and dance round your handbag . |
| 4 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 5 | At the end of each day my pillow was so soaked in saliva that I had to wring it out on the floor . ’ |
| 6 | At this time of night , after two days away , I do n't have to drag her immediately off the floor . |