Example sentences of "down [prep] [art] floor [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled out of the eight , stamped the accelerator down through the floor and drove for a gate . |
| 2 | He did , but exactly what was said I I ca n't recall I I was just concerned at that time to er to get the man safely down onto the floor and secure him . |
| 3 | Fleury tripped over something and sat down on the floor while the sepoy worked his shoulders a little to loosen himself up for a swipe . |
| 4 | She sat down on the floor and took great heaving breaths as though she had come up a hill with a burden beyond her strength . |
| 5 | With a meekness that made her feel mean , he knelt down on the floor and started to gather his cuttings together . |
| 6 | Mouse flopped down on the floor and started to giggle . |
| 7 | The children lie down on the floor and they have to stay absolutely still . |
| 8 | She sat down on the floor and went to work . |
| 9 | He sat down on the floor and , taking my hand in his , curled his fingers like bindweed around mine . |
| 10 | At last , tired and unhappy , Alice sat down on the floor and cried . |
| 11 | After a couple of hours , Zeno had simply lain down on the floor and gone to sleep . |
| 12 | When we were kill-pricking we used to put a sack down on the floor and lie on our bellies using a bodkin to clear holes . |
| 13 | She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase . |
| 14 | She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls . |
| 15 | He just put the Thing down on the floor and sat down next to it , and watched them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nicola sat down on the floor and slowly rolled over on to her back . |
| 18 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
| 19 | Arthur will you stop jumping all over me , get down on the floor and play |
| 20 | And then we went down on the floor and he went over to Bernard and he says , och ! |
| 21 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 22 | Lie down on the floor or on a firm bed supported by pillows if desired — one under your head and another under your knees which will support your lower back . |
| 23 | ( Bitter experience has taught me to remove the gaffer at the end of the event only by holding the wire down on the floor as you pull the tape up . |
| 24 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 25 | He leapt down to the floor and made two gigantic walls of books , trapping Mr Fractor between them . |
| 26 | Anyone who has difficulty in getting down to the floor and up is safer exercising on a firm mattress . |
| 27 | In another , stalactites reached down to the floor and they walked through a forest of pillars . |
| 28 | He reached down to the floor and folded back the carpet . |
| 29 | Slowly , he swung his feet down to the floor and sat up , experimentally flexing a pair of broad shoulders to ease an apparent tension . |
| 30 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |