Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kneeling down on the floor , he picked up an empty cartridge case . |
| 2 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 3 | If you find that one side of the body is pushing down into the floor , then think of that side of the body releasing away from the floor . |
| 4 | She considered lying down on the floor , covered with fallen dresses , and waited for their touch on her neck . |
| 5 | Gould remembers following the driver and lying down on the floor of the car face down , waiting for the ambush to pass . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's lying down on the floor having a nice lie down are n't you Toby ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anyone who has difficulty in getting down to the floor and up is safer exercising on a firm mattress . |
| 10 | After Rose and the boy had gone to bed he sat on his own by the raked fire , sitting motionless , staring down at the floor . |
| 11 | She just sat there , mostly in silence , staring down at the floor , with her hands clasped tightly between her knees . |
| 12 | The Lady Prioress sat with arms crossed , staring down at the floor . |
| 13 | There were wires running down towards the floor . |
| 14 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The congealing blood from the severed arteries of the snow-soaked head drenching the carpet and seeping down between the floor boards . |