1.   As passengers overcame an initial shyness the floor had begun to fill with dancing couples, the captain among them.

2.   Before they were able to fully evacuate the building, they said later, they felt the floors begin to shake.

3.   A dozen firefighters were on the main floor of the old Chinese frozen-food processing plant when the floor began to rumble, then suddenly shifted.

4.   But over the last two years, hall officials noticed that the stage floor had begun to warp.

5.   On the first dribble, the floor begins to vibrate.

6.   Q. My concrete basement floor is beginning to scale, with good-sized chunks coming off it.

7.   The electronic trading will affect the opening levels for the Merval and Burcap indexes when floor trading begins each day.

8.   The floors began creaking.

9.   The trading floors began to empty out.

10.   When his kitchen floor began to sag, and the windowsills crumbled, he replaced them with ceramic tiles.