Example sentences of "[verb] foot [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scrutinise and add up are clear semantic constituents , so the parallelism is sufficient to establish foot as a semantic constituent too : |
| 2 | First , while the water was boiling , I had to find some piece of stout wood to hold the boy 's dropped foot in the proper position — ‘ the position of function ’ as Reid had called it . |
| 3 | Character dance like demi-caractère dance had its beginnings in La Fille Mal Gardée when farmers and peasants were first allowed to set foot on the Royal and Imperial stages , which had hitherto been the home of gods and goddesses or noble and well-born heroes and heroines . |
| 4 | THE discovery of a simple lead fishing weight sheds doubt on Captain Cook 's claim to be the first European to set foot on the shores of Terra Australis . |
| 5 | The crew of that canoe were believed to be among the first human beings to set foot on the Islands . |
| 6 | Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door , as a plague of field-mice infested the estate . |
| 7 | Jean-Paul thinks the French brought prosperity to a poor country , and he goes on believing it because he takes care never to set foot outside the European quarter . |
| 8 | ‘ That I was n't meant to set foot outside the house and grounds ? ’ |
| 9 | She could n't eat , could n't concentrate on her work , could n't do anything except wander round and round the drawing-room , frightened to set foot outside the door in case she bumped straight into Julius . |
| 10 | Deacon Palmer was a golf professional-cum-greenkeeper at Latrobe , near Pittsburgh , and he would never presume to set foot inside the clubhouse unless specifically invited by a member . |
| 11 | One of them immediately returned home , never to set foot in the tropics again — while the other , Werner Meyer , the only white doctor left on the island , stayed on to become the director of Makassar 's hospital . |
| 12 | " They are good women " , Martha said , " but I 'm not going to set foot in the place while that 's going on . |
| 13 | Rosslyn Park , for example , are first in line to experience the probable backlash of that defeat when they set foot on the Recreation Ground this afternoon . |
| 14 | In Adonis Attis Osiris , Frazer saw the goddess Mefitis as personifying ‘ mephitic vapours ’ and described her temple ‘ where the exhalations … were of so deadly a character that all who set foot on the spot died ’ . |
| 15 | Being a total landlubber I was filled with trepidation as I set foot on the deck of the Norway Line 's good ship Jupiter . |
| 16 | When the adventurers set foot on the stairs , each is allowed a WP test ( Magic Sense +10 ) to sense that some form of magical trap exists . |
| 17 | The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven . |
| 18 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 19 | In fact , my little castaway , she never set foot on the island at all — would n't come near the place . ’ |
| 20 | The poster scheme also provides an excellent opportunity to expose large numbers of the population , who rarely or never set foot within a gallery , to contemporary art . |
| 21 | The two men put down their pens and stared at her ; no woman ever set foot within the dockyard gates . |
| 22 | They have no respect for non-Jewish culture and would be only too happy if Jews never set foot in a university . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ To those of you who have eyes to see and ears to hear the message from Damien in this coffin through his mother : never , never set foot in a stolen car again , ’ Fr Kelly told mourners at St Patrick 's Church , Donegall Street . |
| 24 | Let me make it quite plain , if Mike Channon ever set foot in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League Division Three he would not go anywhere but Athletico , even if I had to sell my house and body to keep him here . |
| 25 | But the shows triumph has been its appeal not just to the unaddressed , naff masses , but also to a fashionable audience of discerning clubbers who never set foot in the kind of clubs the programme broadcasts from , and to the extremist yuppie subgroup that reads both the Sunday Times and the Sunday Sport . |
| 26 | Binnerton manor obviously had a large number of freeholders , including some members of the nobility and gentry who probably never set foot in the place let alone attended the manorial court . |
| 27 | Move diagonally back and catch the opponent 's kicking foot with a reverse scooping block |
| 28 | Very controlled taking the leg straight with flexed foot across the supporting leg . |
| 29 | His smile was white and captivating , and he looked all around , acknowledging the greeting , before putting one booted foot on the stool and slinging the strap of the guitar round his neck . |
| 30 | He crossed one booted foot over the other , his manner relaxed . |