Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |
| 2 | The room was rippling with the sounds of their scuffle as they fought in bitter silence , knocking into wooden furniture , she trying to get away , he trying to get her to the bed until they fell against a nightstand and it crashed to the floor . |
| 3 | It rose from the floor , out of the tattered grey wall-to-wall carpeting … |
| 4 | It hovered for a few moments , then suddenly it dropped to the floor with a tinkle and broke in two . |
| 5 | When it dropped to the floor , he nodded with approval . |
| 6 | It raced across the floor , leaking mayonnaise . |
| 7 | It sniffed around the floor for a moment , then disappeared down a hole in the far wall . |
| 8 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 9 | It landed on the floor beside Lavender 's desk and very quickly she ducked down and picked it up and put it into her pencil-box for another time . |
| 10 | It landed on the floor where it lay on its back , its numerous legs doing cycling motions as it tried to right itself . |
| 11 | Annie threw her spoon away again , it landed on the floor this time . |
| 12 | Almost wrenching off the fragile beaded jacket , and unfastening the strapless dress so that it plummeted to the floor , she grabbed the first garments she found — light pink cotton trousers and a grey and white striped cotton blouse — then forced her feet into flat leather sandals without stopping to undo and refasten the thin buckled straps . |
| 13 | It fell on the floor and rolled towards Uncle Mick 's feet — and he promptly stood on it with all his forty-year police authority and his size ten boots . |
| 14 | Almost immediately there was a dull thud as it fell on the floor . |
| 15 | ‘ It fell on the floor , if you remember , Emily . |
| 16 | They had been piled high on his desk until the day it fell through the floor because of all the weight . |
| 17 | It fell to the floor . |
| 18 | It fell to the floor , and instantly smashed . |
| 19 | Finally the head roared ‘ Time 's past ’ , whereupon it fell to the floor with a tremendous noise and shattered into a thousand pieces . |
| 20 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 21 | The dress slipped to her narrow hips where it remained supported by his hands , until he raised them and it fell to the floor and her body gleamed naked . |
| 22 | It fell to the floor at her feet . |
| 23 | She picked it up , misjudged its weight and it fell to the floor with a thud . |
| 24 | For a long moment he held her tightly against him as if he was afraid she might try to elude him , then when he seemed sure of her his hands encircled her waist , moulded her hips and moved upwards , unbuttoning her shirt , pulling it from the waistband of her jeans , then slipping it from her shoulders until it fell to the floor . |
| 25 | It fell to the floor , cushioned by the carpet , and bounced once , twice , then lay there — a visible condemnation . |
| 26 | As it fell to the floor through his Woolworth 's bag ( a startlingly original trick , that ) it was hard to decide whether Reeves or the town football club was bringing greater discredit to Darlington . |
| 27 | He bit through the frond ; half of it fell onto the floor . |
| 28 | But , on reaching it , it proved to be a good twenty feet taller than it appeared , for it grew from the floor of a protective circular sinkhole , perhaps forty yards across , and with vertical walls about twenty feet deep fringed by tangled thorny-vines and spider 's webs . |
| 29 | Same of the paint went on the window frame ; a lot of it went on the glass ; and most of it went on the floor . |
| 30 | It went on the bench and it went on the floor . |