Example sentences of "clothes [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 2 | Vigno had thrown our clothes on to the floor and poured a bottle of aftershave over them before stuffing them back into our lockers to ferment . |
| 3 | Robyn breathed a weary sigh of relief , and threw the carrier of wet clothes on to the floor . |
| 4 | She drooped miserably into the farmhouse , dropping her bag of rehearsal clothes on to the floor . |
| 5 | Emmie took her clothes on to the landing and dressed , looking out of the window . |
| 6 | But then comes the time of differentiation , the time when the busy teacher takes her clothes down to the laundry on a Saturday morning and flings them in the laundry basket in the confidence that they will be returned neatly pressed later in the week . |
| 7 | When he got you home he would strip at once , taking everything off right there and laying his clothes down on the hall floorway as if he had to be naked at once , methodically removing every item . |
| 8 | And this bloke called Haigh that sent his clothes in to the model-maker so 's they would n't have the trouble of faking them . |
| 9 | ‘ So now we simply wash Graham 's clothes along with the rest of the family 's laundry , ’ says Kathleen , ‘ although at times we have tried powders for hyper-sensitive skins . ’ |
| 10 | Now go and explain to her what made you ready to take your clothes off in the barn . |
| 11 | I like taking my clothes off in the sun . ’ |
| 12 | But what woman could have lured Angela Brickell and persuaded her to take all her clothes off in the middle of a wood ? ’ |
| 13 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 14 | He picked the clothes up off the floor and put them away in the wardrobe , and found the President a clean pair of slacks and a shirt before sweeping up the broken glass . |
| 15 | When the man lifts his clothes up above the knee , he wishes then to place the head of the hanging object into the familiar hole which it , when of equal length , has often filled before . |
| 16 | They put pins in their chairs , threw their clothes out of the window and locked them in the bathroom . |
| 17 | She lifted the clothes out of the pot on the end of the pole and transferred them to a fresh-water butt to rinse . |
| 18 | Working frantically and fast Franca dragged her clothes out of the wardrobe , carried them onto the landing and threw them down the stairs . |
| 19 | I woke up in the middle of the night and took all of Jay 's clothes out of the wardrobe . |
| 20 | She ca n't remember how she spent that day but has a vague memory of being like a wild animal howling through the house , tears pouring down her face , drinking brandy , tearing at her clothes , pulling his clothes out of the wardrobe and holding them close to her , burying her face in them , trying to recover the smell of him . |
| 21 | She had disappeared into one of the bedrooms and was dragging clothes out of the drawers of a chest . |
| 22 | As he emptied his clothes out of the drawers , he glanced round the bedroom . |
| 23 | In a launderette , he realized he had left some clothes out of the load , so he opened the door to add them . |
| 24 | ‘ Put the rest of your clothes out on the landing ; I 'll rinse them through and put them in the drier . |
| 25 | Try your clothes out before the interview |
| 26 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |