1 He reached down the atlas from the top shelf.

2 He arranged the books on the shelf.

3 She dropped the book back on the shelf.

4 The weight of the books bears on the shelf.

5 The books sat unread on the shelf for years.

6 Mature flour has a longer shelf life.

7 Put those books up on the top shelf.

8 She's too short to reach the top shelf.

9 He took down a dictionary from the top shelf.

10 He bashed his head against the shelf.

11 The book fell off the shelf.

12 The book I wanted was on the top shelf.

13 I can't get at the tool on the shelf.

14 He carried back the book to the shelf.

15 Move the books onto the second shelf.

16 He put the old books on the top shelf.

17 Put it back on the top shelf.

18 He took several books off the shelf.

19 They go on the bottom shelf.

20 He placed the book on the shelf.

21 He bashed his arm against a shelf.

22 He took a book down from the top shelf.

23 Measure the depth of the cupboard/shelf.

24 I can't reach the shelf - it's too high.

25 He laid the book on the book shelf a moment ago.

26 I can't reach the top shelf unless I use a stepladder.

27 The report will be left on the shelf as so many reports have been left in the past.

28 The sink shelf is grooved so that the water will run off.

29 He looked through shelf after shelf and finally picked on Alex Haley's Roots .

30 Will you please hand down that book from the shelf?

1 He reached down the atlas from the top shelf.

2 He arranged the books on the shelf.

3 Mature flour has a longer shelf life.

4 Put those books up on the top shelf.

5 She's too short to reach the top shelf.

6 The book fell off the shelf.

7 The book I wanted was on the top shelf.

8 Move the books onto the second shelf.

9 He put the old books on the top shelf.

10 Put it back on the top shelf.

11 They go on the bottom shelf.

12 He bashed his arm against a shelf.

13 He took a book down from the top shelf.

14 Measure the depth of the cupboard/shelf.

15 I can't reach the shelf - it's too high.

16 He laid the book on the book shelf a moment ago.

17 I can't reach the top shelf unless I use a stepladder.

18 He chose a cartoon from the stack of videos on the shelf.

19 I've put the cake on a high shelf where he can't get at it.

20 The shelf sagged under the weight of the heavy books.

21 She realigned the books along the edge of the shelf.

22 He washed up his mug and put it back on the shelf.

23 It's important to apply research in a practical way and not leave it on the shelf.

24 The plates on the upper shelf were beyond my reach.

25 When a girl grows up, she puts childish habits on the shelf.

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31 He chose a cartoon from the stack of videos on the shelf.

32 Please put the book back on the shelf when you've finished with it.

33 You'll have to drill into the wood before you can fix the shelf.

34 I've put the cake on a high shelf where he can't get at it.

35 The shelf was beginning to sag beneath the weight of the books upon it.

36 She had to stand on tiptoe to reach the top shelf.

37 The shelf contained a pell - mell assortment of English novels.

38 If you boost him up,he can just reach the top of the shelf.

38 Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!

39 The shelf sagged under the weight of the heavy books.

40 She realigned the books along the edge of the shelf.

41 He washed up his mug and put it back on the shelf.

42 It's important to apply research in a practical way and not leave it on the shelf.

43 Will this shelf sustain the weight of all these books?

44 The plates on the upper shelf were beyond my reach.

45 A retired person should not be made to feel he's on the shelf.

46 This dictionary goes on the top shelf.

47 These books belong on the shelf.

48 On a shelf beneath he spotted a photo album.

49 The clock has sat on that shelf for years.

50 There were no books on the shelf.

51 Are you sure that shelf is secure?

52 He placed the books in order on the shelf.

53 The top shelf broke and books showered down.

54 The cups belong on the shelf.

55 He took the cup off the shelf.

56 The clock fell off the shelf.

57 go on the bottom shelf.

58 The books were placed haphazardly on the shelf.

59 The vase belongs on this shelf.

60 Put the packet up on the top shelf.

61 He restored the dictionary to the shelf.

62 I've cleared a shelf in the cupboard for you.

63 The book goes on the top shelf.

64 Watch your head on the shelf.

65 Simon lifted a weighty volume from the shelf.

66 Put it on the shelf above.

67 She arranged her birthday cards along the shelf.

68 Put the book back on the shelf.

69 Put your books on the bottom shelf.

70 I bought this package off the shelf.

71 The shoes go on the shoe shelf.

72 She never married; she's been left on the shelf.

73 Every shelf is cluttered with ornaments.

74 He lifted the books down from the top shelf.

75 That book belongs on this shelf.

76 He lifted a fat volume down from the shelf.

77 He lifted the box carefully down from the shelf.

78 He lifted the parcel down from the shelf.

79 Her chess set lay on a shelf gathering dust.

80 Her eyes roamed over the books on the shelf.

81 Fresh fruit has a very short shelf life.

82 I knocked it off the shelf by accident.

83 He took a book from the shelf.

84 She accidentally knocked the tea tin off the shelf.

85 The book dropped from/off the shelf.

86 Heave the box onto the top shelf.

87 She had nailed a small shelf to the door.

88 She pulled a blue file from the shelf.

89 A pile of books avalanched out of the shelf.

90 The shelf extends 20 cms from the bookcase.

91 The top shelf is within/out of reach.

92 I think you put that shelf up cock-eyed.

93 I had screwed the shelf on the wall myself.

94 She ran her finger along the dusty shelf.

95 She placed the books in order on the shelf.

96 He screwed the shelf in place.

97 The box sat unopened on the shelf.

98 Put the biscuits on the shelf above.

99 He replaced the book on the shelf.

100 He carefully replaced the vase on the shelf.

101 She stretched up to reach the top shelf.

102 My head struck the angle of the shelf.

103 Take a packet off the shelf.

104 I can't reach the top shelf.

105 I put the packet back on the shelf.

106 The medicine has a shelf life of six months.

107 Store raw meat on the lowest shelf.

108 He took a book from the top shelf.

109 She put it back on the shelf.

110 She reached for the shelf next to the bed.

111 A shelf of land extended from the escarpment.

112 She stood on tiptoe to reach the shelf.

113 He lined the bottles up along the shelf.

114 The shop assistant guided me to the shelf where the gardening books were displayed.

115 A book fell from the shelf and landed on my head.

116 Can you make room on that shelf for more books?

117 In the sentence 'He picked a book off the shelf and handed it to Sally, 'book' is the antecedent of 'it'.

118 The shelf isn't straight - it sags in the middle.

119 The dust on the shelf shows up in the sunlight.

120 We'll dust off an old scheme that has been lying on the shelf for months.

121 Under a wide shelf that holds coffee jars stands a pile of magazines.

122 I bumped my head on the shelf as I stood up.

123 The pies have a shelf life of approximately one week.

124 The shelf is so high it is well out of / beyond my reach.

125 She reached for the book, but it was too high on the shelf.

126 The shelf was full of the sort of books I like to read.

127 I can just reach the shelf, if I stand on tiptoe.

128 I stood the child on a stool so that she could reach the shelf.

129 The shelf is about a metre long-well, 98cm,[] to be precise.

130 He has a shelf full of things, each of which has associations for him.

131 If I stand on the tips of my toes, I can just reach the top shelf.

132 The ship ran into a shelf and sank to the bottom of the sea.

133 He butted his head against the shelf as he was getting up.

134 Her diaries just sat on the shelf for years .

135 There was a clutter of bottles and tubes on the shelf.

136 She muddled all the different kinds of books together on one shelf.

137 With a stretch of his arm, he reached the shelf.

138 The encyclopedia sits on my shelf at home, gathering dust.

139 The key was on a high shelf, just beyond her grasp.

140 Women used to think they were on the shelf at 30.

141 All of those parts can be purchased off the shelf.

142 I don't think the shelf will hold if we put anything else on it.

143 You've got quite a long reach - can you get that box down from the top shelf for me?

144 Place the shelf at a 90 degree angle to the wall.

145 He ran his eyes along the books on the shelf.

146 He returned the album to its place on the shelf.

147 Could you get me that book from the top shelf?

148 When you've finished, put the book back in its place on the shelf.

149 I can just reach the top shelf if I stand on my toes.

150 Make sure the shelf is aligned with the top of the cupboard.

151 All goods should be put in order on the shelf before the supermarket opens.

152 My eye alighted on a dusty old book at the back of the shelf.

153 Theoretically, the price is supposed to be marked on the shelf.

154 Quarto volumes are too large to fit on this shelf.

155 That new shelf in the bathroom is too low - I just hit my head on it.

156 That's twice now he's just walked in here without so much as a by-your-leave and picked a book off the shelf!

157 Would you please help me to put the shelf up; I can't do it myself.

158 Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.

159 She squeezed as many books onto the shelf as she could.

160 She fell while reaching down a vase from the top shelf.

161 Can you reach your arm up to that book on the top shelf?

162 The house stands on a shelf of rock among pines.

163 Some courses can be bought off the shelf as self-contained study packages.

164 She ranked the bottles in order of size along the shelf.

165 If he stood on tiptoe,[http:///shelf.html] he could reach the shelf.

166 He took it off the top shelf and put it back in the same place.

167 He's useless at DIY. He won't even put up a shelf.

168 I banged my head against/on the shelf as I stood up.

169 I don't think the shelf is square with the floor.

170 The album stayed on the shelf for several years, until it was finally released.

171 Please put the dictionary back on the shelf when you've finished with it.

172 Make sure you get the shelf level before screwing it in.

173 Mind you don't bang your head on the shelf when you stand up.

174 The shelf sagged under the weight of hundreds of volumes.

175 In those days, if you hadn't married by the time you were 30, you were definitely on the shelf.

176 A motley collection of ornaments jostled for space on the crowded shelf.

177 The product has a guaranteed shelf life of 60 days.

178 I'm sorry to disturb you but could you show me that shirt on the shelf?

179 He transferred the book from a table to a shelf.

180 I screwed up the jar and put it back on the shelf.

181 The querulous old man refused to be put on the shelf.

182 Can you see where the grammar books are? The dictionaries are on the shelf directly opposite.

183 I hit my head on the shelf as I was standing up.

184 The shelf is beginning to yield under that heavy weight.

185 It's often cheaper if you buy wallpaper off the shelf, rather than having to order it.

186 If you put too many books on one end of the shelf, it'll tip up.

187 She carefully returned the book to its place on the shelf.

188 When a girl grows up, she puts childish habits on the shelf.

189 Leave the wine on a shelf for a week to settle it.

190 He took a bag from a shelf behind some curtains.

191 There are fifteen books on the first shelf, twenty-one on the second,[http:///shelf.html] that makes thirty-six in all.

192 The right place for the bowl is on the shelf.

193 You may as well take these books - they're just gathering dust on the shelf.

194 I smacked my head on the corner of the shelf.

195 I don't think the shelf will take any more books.

196 Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. Samuel Butler