Example sentences of "around [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , Katrina dropped to her knees and began scrabbling around on the floor . |
| 2 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 3 | And the next minute there he was , writhing around on the floor in agony ! ’ |
| 4 | If such ventures encourage better design for older people , they will undoubtedly banish practices which are unhelpful to most people , whatever their age : power points on skirting boards , washing machines which make you bend double to get the washing out , videorecorder cabinets which mean crawling around on the floor to put on tapes — all three are candidates for design improvements . |
| 5 | There were clothes strewn around on the floor . |
| 6 | Tal hopped around on the floor among the cigarette stubs and krillstick wrappers . |
| 7 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 8 | You do not call out , you do not lay around on the floor . |
| 9 | So if you cut your toenails do n't leave them lying around on the floor , do n't make too much noise if you have to use the slop bucket at night and if you 're a shit-stabber then I 'll tell you now , my arsehole is n't for rent . |
| 10 | She scrabbled around on the floor of the dispenser , frantically trying to find something edible , anything that she had overlooked when she had cleared a space for herself ; but it was useless . |
| 11 | Lucker gropes around on the floor . |
| 12 | Even roll around on the floor . |
| 13 | Not ghastly things which looked all right in the air but turned into freezing wet stuff which was allowed to just lie around on the floor . |
| 14 | I fumbled around on the floor and found her white boiler suit and one of her high-heeled shoes . |
| 15 | He took the dose and immediately collapsed , rolling around on the floor in a kind of agony that most people could not contemplate . |
| 16 | Owen slipped his hand in again and felt around on the floor . |
| 17 | For the production crew , filming the six-part series meant spending much of the time crawling around on the floor . |
| 18 | Mrs yeah I was laughing , she was rolling around on the floor laughing , yes I said oh it 's |
| 19 | roll around on the floor . |