Sentences with phrase «through floorboards»

You could literally push your foot right through the floorboards.

During the tenant's absence a significant furnace oil spill occurred which leaked through the floorboards and saturated the main floor beam and ceiling of units below.

I'd often fall asleep to the murmurings of their adult conversation and laughter rising up through the floorboards (my mother's laughter being the most memorable - I owe my va va voom to her), and Bowie would often be playing in the background.

A flea's small size and impressive mobility make it easy to sneak through floorboards, cracks and screens.

The slap of his shoes as they hit the parquet — tat - a-tat — reverberated through the floorboards and shivered up my spine.

We could hear the musical numbers through the floorboards, and we had heard the closing number at midnight.

It's the same with big potholes and road cracks, they broadcast into the passenger compartment through the floorboards.

A pothole strike, for example, is inelegantly felt through the floorboards as well as heard — Audi and BMW do a better job of damping, an issue I also noted in the gas - powered E-class we had several months ago.

We couldn't even get the anti-lock braking system to kick in with both feet practically through the floorboards.

Suddenly orphaned and swept away to the desolate hinterlands of rural England, she moves into the most haunted manor you've ever seen in the movies, a rotting mansion that lets the snow and rain and bitter cold in through the collapsed spire of the roof and literally bleeds red through the floorboards and down the walls.

It had simply seeped through the floorboards to the basement below.

Isabelle arrives at Jack's farm seeking shelter, and after one of the beans drops through a floorboard, the entire cottage becomes tangled up in the growing beanstalk.

The engine and exhaust sounds do not overwhelm the experience unless you punch your right foot all the way through the floorboard; otherwise, the Black Series returns surprisingly low decibel readings more than appropriate and comfortable for cruising and conversing.

I don't feel like I have to put my foot through the floorboard to get it up hill.

Not exact matches

In Sudden Sam's first NBA game, in Los Angeles, he unleashed a quarter - ending, lunging, leaning, 45 - foot shot from the side — a WBA specialty — which banked off the glass and through the hoop just as Smith's face was embedding itself in the Forum floorboards.

An alien is overrunning our gardens and breaking into our homes — cracking concrete foundations, smashing through brickwork and rearing up between floorboards.

They live above an old cinema and Del Toro takes great delight in showing light from the projector seeping up through the cracks of their floorboards — a reminder of the way fantasy can seep into real life in positive ways, giving those shut out from the world the strength to be themselves, even in dark times.

Similarly, a funny apartment scene sees water bursting through the rooms and beneath the floorboards as though the creature has enriched everyone's lives.

Floorboards creak and metal pipes clang as you snake your way through darkness with little more than a lighter and your dwindling courage.

As part of the deal, Leo promised to repair the floorboard where it was rusting through under the passenger side carpet.

That feeling of lightness has a flip side; this RLX Sport Hybrid SH - AWD mirrored our last front - wheel drive RLX tester in allowing an untoward amount of vibration to travel through the structure, especially the floorboards.

Money burns a hole right through my pocket, and then eats away at the floorboards too.

Part of the reason cat urine smells so bad is that it seeps through the carpet into the padding and down into the floorboards where it is hard to clean.

keep in mind that when the cat urinated in that area, they left about a cup of urine that soaked down through the carpet into the floorboards.

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The cottage style house has jarrah floorboards through out to make it an easy, relaxed, wonderful holiday.

He is also known for funding his real - estate investments in this neighbourhood partly through the artworks that he sells in galleries — notably vertical stripe paintings made from the wooden floorboards of school gym floors (sourced from condemned Chicago public schools) or canvas fire hoses (in reference to their brutal use against civil - rights protestors in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963) and also for his expressionist black paintings, abstractions made in tar in collaboration with his father, a retired roofer.

Always one to throw sand in the gears of art - world institutions, he tended to circulate his work either in truly alternative spaces (like sticking up out of the uneven floorboards of a warehouse downtown) or through the US Postal Service.

Mick O'Shea's train set snakes around one gallery, through a hole in the floorboard into the hall, and back.

Next come the Falling Men: wall assemblages that transform Johnson's signature materials of white tile, oak floorboards, mirror shards and black soap and wax splatters into upside - down stick figures who seem to fall through space.

Apart from his bulging blue eyes, the surrounding scene is tranquil; a flesh - toned wall reflecting gently off polished floorboards and a mountain - scape shown outside through a neatly framed window.

no heating, no insulation and cracks in the floorboards that you can talk to the rats through!.

Bare floorboards run through from the hall to the bedroom, where a white lamp is used as a doorstop.

We had to look under the floorboards in the room just next door to see that he had driven the nail through the mains water pipe.