Example sentences of "of [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the foot " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
2 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
3 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
4 | Instead of shooting ourselves in the foot our people are asking , where does the fi fight start ? |
5 | A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot , the chairman , Sir Alan Cockshaw , admitted ruefully yesterday . |