Example sentences of "feet and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frenchman , in bare feet and clutching his overalls , hurried southwards . |
| 2 | They had stamped their feet and rubbed their hands while they were waiting about . |
| 3 | He was sitting in the bar with a drink and the evening paper when she came down , and though he appeared not to notice her quiet descent until she was at the foot of the stairs , she had seen him shift his weight some seconds before he looked up , ready to spring to his feet and intercept her . |
| 4 | They stood him on his feet and punched him mercilessly until he fell to the ground . |
| 5 | Coins and pots and pans and weapons and tools and horse tack jangled like a demented musical band , and each time someone fell , the clanging beast would sag , then lift the fallen back to their feet and sweep them on into the courtyard . |
| 6 | Then we stagger to our feet and pick our clothes off the floor , and sit and drool into our glass , puffing on a pensive perfecto , and staring at the tabloid and all its gruesome crap . |
| 7 | It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit . |
| 8 | A rabbit dodged between her feet and made it to the hedgerow . |
| 9 | She put us back on our feet and made it possible for us to live again . |
| 10 | The barn shook again as I got to my feet and made my way to the door with the feeling that the barn had been very lucky so far in not receiving a direct hit from one of the frequent mortar bombs that were exploding in and around the farm . |
| 11 | When the woman standing over him returned to her place , Joseph rose to his feet and made his way unsteadily towards the back of the hut , calling Paul by name . |
| 12 | He was kissing her hungrily , then he lifted her off her feet and carried her to the water 's edge , resting her on the sand so that their bodies could feel the gentle ebb and fall of the sea against them . |
| 13 | Before he had fully recovered , Christian hauled him to his feet and dragged him away from his groaning adversary . |
| 14 | They had grasped her by the wrists and feet and dragged her to the neighbouring room . |
| 15 | Seizing her wrist , he hauled her to her feet and dragged her through the small hall and into a side-room with a wide , specially designed window on the north wall . |
| 16 | The boys stood this for as long as was decent , and then , after a particularly heavy blow to the head , the brothers grabbed the Bosnian refugee by both feet and up-ended him over the sand . |
| 17 | He shuffled his feet and pursed his lips , trying to conceal his embarrassment and surprise at this dangerous , clever English clerk . |
| 18 | He was very brave about the whole thing , crawling up to his feet and telling me it did n't hurt a bit . |
| 19 | Tug felt the call to join her , to leap to his feet and let himself be carried up on the tide , into a high and heroic world . |
| 20 | Take my feet and let them be |
| 21 | He lifted one of the plump feet and let it drop again to show us how lifeless it was . |
| 22 | The first person puts the banana on their feet and passes it to the next . |
| 23 | With a gasp she was on her feet and pushing her way to the door . |
| 24 | They always were rhythmic , percussive , beaty , tinny , rattly — a tease , in fact , they tickled your feet and left you begging for more . |
| 25 | Noise had become Ariel 's lot : she , who had lifted her feet and put them down again so quietly on the slopes that birds did not stir at her passing , was used to hearing a single song in her head at any one time . |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't wash your feet and put them on the dirty floor , do you ? ’ he asked as he got ready for the guests who would soothe the painful passage towards the critics . |
| 27 | And when they picked us out they used to put the rubber on the ground pick the dirt out of their feet and put it into their manger , not throw it away , put it into their manger because horses love to lick mud . |
| 28 | I helped her to her feet and hugged her . |
| 29 | He threw his head back with laughter then hauled her to her feet and hugged her to him . |
| 30 | His return fire lifted Weaver off his feet and flung him two yards backwards , to sprawl at Bodie 's feet as Bodie came racing through the side garden . |