Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [art] foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derby County 's grief at the foot of the first division continues as they went down two one at Crystal Palace . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll find an oilskin jacket in the locker at the foot of the stairs , ’ I said , ‘ and you 'll also discover that Ellen has left a Thermos of coffee on the stove , and I like mine without sugar but with milk . |
| 3 | The filing cabinet was dented and torn , shoved to one side at the foot of the stairs , and the thing had crawled out from beneath it , trying to crawl up the stairs after them . |
| 4 | The galley on the port side at the foot of the companion and useful worktop area is limited , but there is adequate storage for provisions as well as pots and pans . |
| 5 | Their meeting at the City Ground supplies a chilling reminder that no side at the foot of the table is too good to go down , and that nice guys often do finish last . |
| 6 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 7 | The corrie cradles a loch at the foot of a trinity of towering near-vertical buttresses of quartzite supported on a sandstone base : a spectacular and distinctive formation . |
| 8 | It 's easy but sneaky ; you ferry a dump of fuel , shielding , a nuke and a missile , load up on fuel and a nuke , fly out and up eight clicks , drop the nuke at the foot of the mountains , power-dive back down to base , load the shielding , fuel to the max with just one missile aboard ( meanwhile the nuke explodes , shaking the ground ; you do n't want to be fuelling at this point ) , then you climb like fuck , get to ceiling and then hover in the air above the rising mushroom cloud ! |
| 9 | There was a shoebox at the foot of the makeshift altar . |
| 10 | He pulled up in fourth gear at the foot of the balustraded stone steps which led up to the solicitor 's office : Totteridge , Spruce and Hardnut , Commissioners for Oaths , said the brass plate . |
| 11 | With four of us , climbing the route in two parties of two , and four 50 metre ropes to play with , retreat would be relatively straightforward to the snow at the foot of the route . |
| 12 | This waterfall is the origin in fact of the Gave de Pau , which starts life off here through channels made in the packed snow at the foot of the sunless rock wall . |
| 13 | The only track into Bahdu from the south , feasible for loaded camels , skirted a marsh at the foot of these hills . |
| 14 | Ariel 's offering at the foot of the saman tree was the first of many such laid there to win the intercession of the sorceress , Sycorax their mother . |
| 15 | Hotel Portals is an attractive hotel in an idyllic , secluded setting at the foot of a hill of pine trees . |
| 16 | He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff . |
| 17 | Lever smiled , his fingers tracing the wax seal at the foot of the note , then looked up again . |
| 18 | In soft cliffs erosion is very active at first and becomes progressively slower until it halts , unless the debris from the cliff is moved away so that it does not interfere with wave action at the foot of the cliff . |
| 19 | The old wooden case-clock at the foot of the stairs where Ellie was standing chimed the hour , as if to tell her she had two hours to herself before the ‘ broth ’ returned , and three and a quarter hours before her father did likewise . |
| 20 | I made my way carefully down the staircase , intending to sit in the sun at the foot of the wall and drink my tea , but the breeze could find no way there , and the strange , musky smell from the wall where those plants grew was stronger than ever . |
| 21 | A fish farmer warned of the effect of the mining on the 60 full-time jobs in aquaculture in Clew Bay ; a teacher from Murrisk , a village at the foot of the mountain range , said a survey of households there found 91 per cent against the mining , 8 per cent would not indicate their position and 1 per cent ignored it . |
| 22 | Charming inn situated in picturesque village at the foot of the Lammermuirs . |
| 23 | The team had to reach both sites by foot from Mahimachi , a village at the foot of the Serrania — the first was a miners ' camp , while the expedition members built a camp at the second site . |
| 24 | Athelstan , however , had to stand outside the protective ring of steel watching Cranston bow at the foot of the steps and fall to one knee . |
| 25 | Under this heading in the accounts are the costs of the transport of the dressed copper ore , from the mine to the quay on the lake side , and from there by boat to the copper house at Nibthwaite at the foot of the lake . |
| 26 | He speaks a few sentences of rapid Thai to the guard , who stares at the two of them , breaks into a comprehending smile and turns away back to his hut at the foot of the drive . |
| 27 | A spacious typically Tyrolean gasthof , the Waldhof stand in a meadow at the foot of the Scheffau chair and gondola lifts . |
| 28 | When they were in the little hall at the foot of the stairs Francis said : ‘ Is father 's studio locked , Cathy ? ’ |
| 29 | Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot . |
| 30 | Notice how people gather at certain spots : they crowd the sand at the foot of the steps leading from the promenade ; and they gather in groups near the places where deck-chairs are hired , where icecreams are sold , or where swings and roundabouts occupy pitches on the beach . |