Example sentences of "on its [adj] legs " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice put it carefully on the ground , and it ran quietly away on its four legs into the wood . |
| 2 | ‘ Why should they ? ’ says Brian Everthorpe , tipping his chair back on its rear legs and hooking his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 3 | Kenneth sighed with pretended regret , putting his feet up on the low wall of the terrace and rocking his seat back on its rear legs as he shaded his eyes with one hand . |
| 4 | But the dog rose shakily on its bandy legs and bared its teeth . |
| 5 | It 's an old established set-up , but I reckon it 's on its last legs now . |
| 6 | The security apparatus , known as Stasi by the people who feared it , is on its last legs after 39 years of running agents , snooping on dissidents and harassing critics of the ruling Communist party . |
| 7 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 8 | Mother did all the cooking as well , and there was a problem in that department too because our oven was going home — that is to say , it was on its last legs — even before the war . |
| 9 | The pair alighted on W Williams , a quoted foundry business that was on its last legs and , with City backing , went shopping . |
| 10 | The battery , like the torch 's owner , was on its last legs . |
| 11 | ‘ It looked as though it was on its last legs when you gave me a lift yesterday . ’ |
| 12 | The African version of the stegosaur had long spikes all the way down to its tail , with spikes even on its back legs . |
| 13 | Rincewind turned in his saddle and glanced as Twoflower 's Luggage , which was currently ambling along on its little legs , occasionally snapping its lid at butterflies . |
| 14 | Then , when it is ridden in the show ring , or it sees something possibly threatening , its anxiety peaks — it promptly stands on its hind legs or pulls its tongue back over the bit . |
| 15 | The male of the duck-billed platypus has sharp poison-spurs on its hind legs . |
| 16 | Plateosaurus was a well-known herbivore , occasionally rearing up and sprinting in short bursts on its hind legs , its momentum aided by its long tail . |
| 17 | The male platypus possesses on its hind legs a large , reversible spur . |
| 18 | The beast reared up on its hind legs , screaming with blood showing at its lips and teeth . |
| 19 | Lapis lazuli was also used to inlay the ‘ standard ’ from Ur , in reality perhaps the sound-box of a musical instrument , as well as for the horns and upper portions of the fleece of the remarkable cult figure of a goat standing on its hind legs . |
| 20 | It shied ; then , as the rider gathered rein , reared and skittered backwards on its hind legs . |
| 21 | Bellowing and rearing on its hind legs , the massive bull lifted him bodily off the ground and shook him repeatedly like a rag-doll . |
| 22 | How one reconstructed a dinosaur might depend upon one 's views of relationships between reptiles and birds ; and indeed with the coming of cladistics , taxonomy based on descent , this is still a live issue , though there is now general agreement that Iguanodon stood on its hind legs . |
| 23 | Hissing loudly , it swivelled on its hind legs and disappeared , the tail banging like a rope on the top step as it fled . |
| 24 | As we pulled through a grove of bedraggled trees , the horse shied violently and stood up on its hind legs , neighing , between the shafts , so that we were tipped backwards . |
| 25 | It uttered a doglike howl , then raced past Tallis , moving so fast on its hind legs , bent forward , that she could hardly follow its motion . |
| 26 | I watch it stand on its hind legs with its snout on the worktop . |
| 27 | Close behind , speeding through the flickering violet light , were a large ominous-looking chest and a picture box that skittered along dangerously on its three legs . |