Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] on [art] floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kneeling down on the floor , he picked up an empty cartridge case . |
| 2 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 3 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 4 | She dropped down and started groping round on the floor as the bus sped down the long hill into town . |
| 5 | Sara went to the top of the spiral staircase and crouched , listening to the argument going on on the floor below . |
| 6 | She considered lying down on the floor , covered with fallen dresses , and waited for their touch on her neck . |
| 7 | Gould remembers following the driver and lying down on the floor of the car face down , waiting for the ambush to pass . |
| 8 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 9 | He 's lying down on the floor having a nice lie down are n't you Toby ? |
| 10 | Squatting down on the floor like a peasant , Gaveston began the dark satanic ritual learnt from his mother for the total destruction of his enemies . |
| 11 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I could leave everything lying about on the floor and nothing would get broken ! |
| 15 | Raise the toes of the back leg and — without the toes touching back on the floor — stand up using the thigh strength of the front leg . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For the production crew , filming the six-part series meant spending much of the time crawling around on the floor . |
| 18 | He 's alright , he was rolling over on the floor yesterday with me was n't he ? |
| 19 | He took the dose and immediately collapsed , rolling around on the floor in a kind of agony that most people could not contemplate . |
| 20 | Mrs yeah I was laughing , she was rolling around on the floor laughing , yes I said oh it 's |
| 21 | Then , to Perdita 's squirming embarrassment , he replayed the clip of her rowing with the umpire three times , freezing the frame of her yelling with her mouth wide open , until her teammates were howling with laughter and rolling round on the floor . |
| 22 | but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it . |
| 23 | Suddenly , Katrina dropped to her knees and began scrabbling around on the floor . |
| 24 | And the next minute there he was , writhing around on the floor in agony ! ’ |