Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pos pn] foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deck glowed between his feet . |
| 2 | Lawton screamed , was lifted off his feet as Delaney swung around , bomb ready . |
| 3 | How many shoes do we need for our feet or gloves for our hands ? |
| 4 | You 'll never catch me toeing the tiresome MU ‘ Keep Music Live ’ line , but an organic drummer does wonders for my feet . |
| 5 | An empty drink tube rolled between their feet as the jitney wheeled into motion , whisking them away from the cargo concourse and plunging into the tunnels of Plenty . |
| 6 | ‘ Forget about your feet , boy — you 've won the competition ! |
| 7 | The whooping and laughing boys carried her back to the village , her head dangling down from a branch slotted between her feet . |
| 8 | He takes a coin , spins it , let it fall between his feet . |
| 9 | Seb felt as though the ground was opening beneath his feet . |
| 10 | The dry bracken crackled beneath his feet and gave off a pungent aroma . |
| 11 | Flowering plants grow near her feet . |
| 12 | The stairs juddered beneath their feet , the stair-rail vibrating visibly and emitting an echoing whanng ! |
| 13 | What of that other world , the world of the distant past that now lies beneath our feet ? |
| 14 | You can even feel the deck shift beneath your feet or shiver in the ice cold arctic wind . |
| 15 | Satan was bruised under her feet … ‘ |
| 16 | A feathery pattern of ice covered the mud of the yard and cracked under their feet as they ran to the privy , and it was n't much warmer indoors . |
| 17 | They were spectacular efforts often launched some distance from the target , who would be dillying and dallying with his foot on the ball when , suddenly and without warning , he would end up in a twisted heap at the bottom of our wall amid a terrible noise of stud on bone . |
| 18 | They ought to be curled under my feet by now , but it does n't happen . |
| 19 | By leaning her back against it and pedalling with her feet she could move it forwards inches at a time . |
| 20 | BLACK VELVET Rivera S120 Stack Given that the guitar world seems to have voted with its feet and demonstrated a fondness for valves which to the average electronics engineer defies reason , where else is there left for amp designers to go … ? |
| 21 | Investors have criticised last week 's fiscal package and interest rate cut as too little too late and voted with their feet for most of the week by selling out of the market . |
| 22 | We asked Barbara to write about her favourite and most useful London shops , and readers voted with their feet by flocking to the shops she featured . |
| 23 | They dived from 49p to an all-time low of 40p as investors voted with their feet . |
| 24 | BUYERS voted with their feet again yesterday after the Prime Minister 's speech failed to boost confidence . |
| 25 | Very recently , some of ‘ our ’ students have , like many of their peers , ‘ voted with their feet ’ . |
| 26 | Nineteen farmers voted with their feet every day last year and left their occupation . |
| 27 | All this failed ; evacuees voted with their feet , and the drift-back continued . |
| 28 | Well , I cycled up quite slowly behind him and then I stopped with my feet on the ground and felt for the gun . |
| 29 | It bumped into his foot , beeped at him , and then bustled off in the opposite direction . |
| 30 | Several people ended up with wet feet and all the cats vanished and even the kids who were trying to help got the odd clout for ‘ gettin' under our feet ’ . |