Example sentences of "himself [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 2 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 3 | He could remember them discussing it over the ironing and himself on the floor playing with his soldiers behind the sofa and keeping very quiet about it because it was way past his bedtime . |
| 4 | She was aware of him settling himself on the floor in the corner by the bench , then stiffened when he picked up one of her finished pieces . |
| 5 | Gerard threw himself on the floor . |
| 6 | Richard threw himself on the floor screaming ! |
| 7 | to put his coat on , I picked him up and tried to carry him , and he just flung himself around so hard I had to put him down and he immediately flung himself on the floor again ! |
| 8 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 9 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 10 | The wizard pulled himself across the floor , painfully , and whispered , ‘ What the hell was that ? ’ |