Example sentences of "on to the [adj] floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna twisted about in the bath , sending water sloshing over the edge and on to the cork-tiled floor . |
| 2 | One of the bullets struck his forearm and he cried out , dropping the rifle which clattered noisily on to the concrete floor below . |
| 3 | Any moment it would buck , toss her , white broken heap , on to the gleaming floor . |
| 4 | Lee , startled to see Philip , moved and the helmet which he had on the back of his head fell off on to the flagged floor . |
| 5 | His snowdrops were already wilting like wax candles in the warmth of his hand , and as he copied the mourners ahead of him and stood up , one flower slipped between his fingers on to the rust-coloured floor . |
| 6 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 7 | Albert Ablett recalled the occasion over sixty years ago when a girl very rashly walked on to the malting floor when the piece-walker was not about : |
| 8 | I can not remember just what purpose had taken me up on to the top floor of the house to where the row of guest bedrooms line the corridor . |
| 9 | I have again the impression of a girl , another girl , sitting still and silent in a crowded room at Oxford while everyone else 's meaningless chatter bumped around the walls or dropped like limp catkins on to the wood-block floor . |
| 10 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |
| 11 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 12 | It juddered again , twisted … and fell from the wall on to the tiled floor ; severed clean at the ankle as if with a butcher 's knife . |
| 13 | I will begin tomorrow — ’ and then she crumpled up softly on to the cold floor and began to weep . |
| 14 | He slipped on to the cold floor . |
| 15 | As she stepped out on to the third floor , her dark brows were drawn together in the beginnings of a frown because she was still thinking of that last conversation . |
| 16 | The scientists pounded after her as she hurtled out on to the open floor , almost bumping into a pair of guards who were doing their rounds . |
| 17 | There was — a gulp and a yell and the rest of the glass ( he had drunk at least some ) flew up and out and on to the sanded floor of the dining area . |