I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dance floor (= special floor for people to dance on )
dance floor
factory floor
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There’s been a lot of talk on the factory floor among the ordinary workers about more layoffs.
first floor
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a flat on the first floor
floor lamp
floor plan
floor show
furniture/shoe/floor etc polish
ground floor
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a ground floor flat
pace the floor/room
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Sam stood up and paced the floor, deep in thought.
sea floor
shop floor
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The chairwoman started her working life on the shop floor.
the forest floor (= the ground in a forest )
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The forest floor was carpeted with leaves.
the valley floor
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Most of the town is built on the valley floor.
top floor
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We have a flat on the top floor of the building.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
concrete
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His shoes were off and his cloven hooves showered sparks across the concrete floor .
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He fell and hit his head on the concrete floor .
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In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor .
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On the concrete floor inside are tire tracks, and skid marks where kids have done wheelies or donuts.
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A low interest loan from an anonymous benefactor allowed the concrete floor to go in.
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The lowest six stories were fully framed and concrete floors were being poured.
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This policy of renewal was effected by installing a replacement internal structure of load-bearing brick walls and insitu concrete floors .
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He was tortured severely, stripped and manacled to a concrete cell floor .
top
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The top floor directly overhead had been abandoned for years.
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Troops occupy the top floors of several high-rise buildings in both north and west Belfast.
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It came from the top floor .
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If gravity was strong, I could go to the top floor of the building and speed up my time.
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When they finally reached the top floor , the penthouse office was deserted.
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On the top floor of 32, Mrs Mackintosh stared nervously out at the dark street.
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The two rooms on the top floor were both beautifully light.
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Being on the top floor with its breathtaking view of the surrounding forest was one of the job's many perks.
upper
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They could hear the wild rush of the wind and the pattering of rain against floorboards from the deserted upper floor .
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Heat will build up in the upper floors .
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On the upper floors are a documentation centre and administrative offices with a commanding view of the city.
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The courtrooms were on the upper floors , and the prisoners were brought into the service bay.
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The distant Tower showed no mark of the flames that had consumed its upper floors .
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A large upper floor in their poor district only cost three guilders a week.
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The upper floors will be for two 50 bed adult acute wards and accommodation.
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A maid's room on the upper mezzanine floor north side.
wooden
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In the early hours of Thursday morning, the murderer skewered him to the wooden floor of a refreshment hut.
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These four swung and whipped and rung little chips off on the wooden porch floor .
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She sprawled flat on the hard wooden floor , her cry abruptly silenced as all the air rushed out of her body.
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I blinked at the old wooden floor with misunderstanding.
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Where the wooden floors were not exposed they were covered in that brown linoleum with a pattern of black fleurs-de-lis.
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This scheme was suggested by the need to remove the partially rotten wooden floor , thus deepening the space available for subdivision.
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We decided to install a wooden floor and electric lights.
■ NOUN
dance
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The restored 1920s train has every luxury, including live music, a dance floor , plus first-class food.
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When Jack put a foot on the dance floor , some, then all couples stopped and the band trailed off.
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Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor .
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In the big middle room was a dance floor , with colored lights and a few gook couples doing the fox-trot.
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Putting her glass on the bar, she went on to the dance floor with him.
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They joined their own hands and stepped on to the dance floor with their man.
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She looked across the dance floor and for a moment lost her balance.
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Longbine said line dancers have concluded that repeated dance floor collisions were acts of aggression by the ballroom dancers.
factory
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Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic.
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Rumors swept up from the factory floor and lofted back down again from the cubicles of middle management.
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They went through a series of corridors until they reached the factory floor .
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Such an agreement, however, has clearer links with the factory floor than the consulting room.
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He moved off the factory floor and into management with the same manufacturing firm.
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But socialism was doomed unless power remained on the factory floor and flowed upwards, rather than downwards.
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Down on the factory floor , automatic control had the expected virtue of moderating high-powered energy sources as mentioned earlier.
ground
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When they stepped out of the lift on the ground floor , Romanov spotted Herr Bischoff's father with another customer.
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Illingworth greeted me perfunctorily and led me through the now darkened 70 ground floor of the building.
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Get in on the ground floor .
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The lower ground floor contains a rather characterless, Docklands-style pub.
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I descended to the ground floor , passing a man in his mid-sixties, clutching a twenty-dollar bill.
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She was found by the caretaker, whimpering and exhausted on the ground floor of the east wing.
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On the ground floor one bay would serve as an entrance and utility room, with a stair to the first floor.
kitchen
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I bet her kitchen floor is surgically sterile.
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He did a load of laundry, ran a mop across the kitchen floor .
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Aunt Margaret helped Victoria construct a high house from a greasy set of playing cards on the kitchen floor .
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Evidently, some one has been living beneath my kitchen floor , taking comfort in the heat of my boiler.
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The steamy yellow gruel in the bucket splashed out on to the kitchen floor .
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Wash and, if necessary, wax kitchen floor .
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The kitchen floor , Martina said, was like a jacuzzi.
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Officers returned Saturday and noticed that the kitchen floor had been recently scrubbed.
level
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These critical areas are defined as being: In doors and side panels, up to a height of 1.5m above floor level .
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Remember, floor level draughtproofing materials should be fitted securely and not be loose-lying as they can be a hazard for falls.
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Outside the shop at first floor level was a magnificent six-foot magnet.
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And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet.
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From the 14C to the nearly modern, there is a perceptible drop in the floor level .
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Between those ribs, at floor level , sub-chambers formed deep caves.
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In a moment they would realise what she was doing and keep their fire at floor level .
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Damp at floor level will nearly always be due to plumbing and heating pipe leaks.
ocean
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These are rocket-shaped projectiles loaded with vitrified waste, and dumped from ships to plunge into soft sediments on the ocean floor .
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About 100 tons of contaminated sediments still lie on the ocean floor .
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Here, perhaps, all the ocean floor material has been carried up into the mountains.
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These of course raise little or no dust unless the impactor reaches the ocean floor before detonating.
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He assured Field that it was possible to lay a cable on the ocean floor .
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They continued to pursue their own explanations for the mysterious mountains on the ocean floor .
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And always to areas where the ocean floor dropped dramatically; great fissures in the rocky crust.
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This took the form of an unusual series of stripes, discovered as ships towing magnetometers trolled above the ocean floor .
plan
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Draw a simple floor plan of your new home showing where the furniture is to go.
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We consult an architect, laying our current floor plan before her and describing our needs.
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Above, ground floor plan of Saltoun, East Lothian.
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They were 16 pages long and looked like the floor plans for the lunar shuttle.
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One of the first points to consider when reorganizing is the basic floor plan and convenient work triangle mentioned on page 97.
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It was a much better floor plan than I would have come up with had I not known about feng shui.
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The master drawing is usually the ground floor plan , taken as a section at one metre height.
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The floor plan is modeled after the Latin cross.
sea
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At the outer edge of each shelf, the sea floor plunges precipitously down into the depths.
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Distinguishing between active sonar returns from mines and returns from rocks and debris on the sea floor is difficult.
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Later still it was found covering extensive areas of the sea floor south of Ireland.
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Sonar behaves differently because sounds reverberate off the sea floor .
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This creature, shaped like a slim leaf about 6 centimetres long, lives half-buried in the sand of the sea floor .
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He knows that most of his bottles will become encrusted with algae and settle to the sea floor .
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Though they cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface, the rocks of the sea floor are virtually inaccessible.
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Tiny oceanic microorganisms solidify carbon and oxygen gases dissolved in sea water to produce a salt which settles on the sea floor .
senate
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By the time Goals 2000 returned to the Senate floor , it was March 23, 1994, a Wednesday.
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Capitol Hill visitors are often shocked to see two or three senators on the Senate floor .
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Harry Reid, face a tough fight on the Senate floor .
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Once it reached the Senate floor , the Helms amendment won handily, 75 to 22.
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He will need to sell his candidacy and meet the Democratic air attack with regularly televised speeches from the Senate floor .
shop
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The effects of large-scale unemployment and changes in the laws affecting trade unions have sapped militancy on the shop floor .
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Traditional craft know-how was being reduced to scientific data and passing from workman to manager, from shop floor to front office.
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Support groups were located on the shop floor around the high-performance teams which they served.
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In metalworking, your margins end up on the shop floor with even the slightest employee inattention.
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Over several years, the company had introduced these new machines on to the shop floor .
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Working Conditions Most industrial production managers divide their time between the shop floor and their office.
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Robotics and shop floor systems - control systems, industrial robots and manufacturing equipment.
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While engineering curricula included science and mathematics, they were still rooted in the shop floor .
space
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Dancers say tension between ballroom and line dancers who compete for dance floor space has existed for years.
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The algae tanks were stacked so they took less than 8 square metres floor space .
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How did mall stores battle back, saddled with higher rents, less floor space and lower volume than their competitors?
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Newsagents across the country had cleared extra floor space for the 60,000 additional copies of the paper.
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As large a group as can fit has gathered in the available floor space to dance.
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There was a fourposter bed with tattered red hangings taking up nearly all of the floor space .
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A couple of jumbo jets could land on the floor space that houses this bash.
stone
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She walked on, her footsteps deliberately loud on the stone floor .
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The kitchen was like a big utility room with a huge sink, a stone floor , and a large wooden table.
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There is a sudden scuffle as one of the dancers collapses, delirious on to the stone floor .
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Biko died on the stone floor of his cell the next day of severe head trauma and brain damage.
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He is afraid of falling and of the stone floor under him.
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Before he got half way, they dropped with an almighty crash on to the stone floor .
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He had a little hut with a stone floor , and a supply of handles and twigs.
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She had dropped the cup on the stone floor of the kitchen.
■ VERB
fall
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The woman fell to the floor and fractured a wrist as the attacker made off.
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It found its mark; one of the suitors fell dying to the floor .
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Then there came the sound of something falling on the floor .
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The umbrella fell to the floor with a sharp crack of the ferrule on the tile.
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On her way past him, Dermot stuck a foot out and Ellie fell to the floor .
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In so doing, I banged into the edge of the sink and fell to the floor .
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Some of the white substance fell on to the floor .
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Later, while dancing, Johnson slipped and fell to the floor , and the curious gathered around.
hit
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In those days, the sweat would fall off my hands and I'd hear it hitting the floor .
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Well, you never saw jokes hit a ballroom floor and slide off like those did.
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Greenslade and I had hit the floor early.
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If you smell smoke, hit the floor , and crawl to the nearest exit.
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He was dead before his body hit the floor .
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He heard Barnabas hit the study floor running, scattering a braided rug to kingdom come.
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All that hit the floor was a glossy leaflet inviting her to discover the magic of Christmas at the local hypermarket.
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Somebody snapped out the lights inside at the sound of those shots and everybody hit the floor .
lie
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In the police cells the Masai warrior, Tepilit, lies on the mud floor .
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Midnight was lying on the floor away from the bed she had made him.
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I wanted to pick up the poker and beat him over the head until he lay senseless on the floor .
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I hobbled upstairs and lay on the floor to get my shorts off.
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He went in, and found an elderly woman lying on the floor .
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On the landing he noticed a piece of paper lying on the floor between the stepladder and the wall.
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A scattered heap of books and manuscripts lay on the floor .
sit
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He liked to sit on the floor , but was careful not to do so too often.
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The reason is that the child usually sits on the floor to put her shoes on and her knees point outwards.
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He turned off the cold water, picked up the razor blade and sat on the floor next to the tub.
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They did not sit on the floor .
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Lady Jones sat in a straight-backed chair; several chil-dren sat cross-legged on the floor in front of her.
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Joey sat on the floor with the others.
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His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
trade
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The Salomon trading floor was unique.
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He pushed his way on to the trading floor and became a bond trader.
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Our chairman, John Gutfreund, left his desk at the head of the trading floor and went for a walk.
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At any given moment on the trading floor billions of dollars were being risked by bond traders.
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The traders joined him, in a show of support, gathering the garbage cans from across the trading floor .
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You also went to the trading floor to learn.
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After three months in the class trainees circulated wearily around the trading floor for two months more.
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He walked around the trading floor with a confidence seen in few of the people who were actually working.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be/get in on the ground floor
mop the floor with sb
rooted to the spot/floor/ground etc
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Ashi found herself rooted to the spot in disbelief as she watched the threshing legs of her daughter.
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For a few moments he had felt rooted to the floor and had been unable to move.
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For a moment, she was rooted to the spot.
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He stands still, his feet rooted to the ground, his knees locked.
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He stood rooted to the spot.
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So startled was he by this sudden onslaught, Ryker momentarily froze, rooted to the spot.
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Unable to move, Philippa remained rooted to the spot.
the factory floor
the first floor
the first floor
the sea floor
wipe the floor with sb
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I'd think twice before I started a fight with him - he'd wipe the floor with me!
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And had I not wiped the floor with the little squirt, conversationally speaking?
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Have your best conversationalists around to tea or dinner and Richard would wipe the floor with them.
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It was never his habit to try to wipe the floor with anyone.
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She had thought he would wipe the floor with her if he ever learned of her deception.
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She was about to wipe the floor with her enemies.
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The magazine Jamming saw the band wipe the floor with all opposition in all categories outside the female sections.
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This is good because it prevents the enemy character wiping the floor with your Goblins.
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Yet Oakland were also supposed to wipe the floor with Los Angeles a year ago.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cody spilled his milk on the kitchen floor .
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Ray and Lisa were the first ones on the dance floor .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each speaker requires slightly more than a square foot of floor space and weighs 55 pounds.
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I hadn't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever.
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Let's just shove everything back into the cupboards, clean the floor and go.
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She turned her face to the floor and remained praying in that position for three days and nights.
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Sun beat through the windows of the flat and made patterns on the floor .
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The blaze destroyed most of the second floor of the three-story structure, which never reopened.
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The prettiest bedroom has oak beams and original wide floor boards.
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They only dragged her more roughly, so that her knees scraped along the rough cement floor .
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be/get in on the ground floor
the factory floor
the first floor
the first floor
the sea floor
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She floored the Audi and took off.
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The champion floored Watson with a single punch.
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We were floored that so many people came.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was an administrator, not an astronomer, and that question had always floored him.
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Just put it in a really low gear and floor it.