Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] the knee " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea makes me feel weak at the knees . |
| 2 | On the top of the cart , as if resting on a bed of cushions , a young boy with breeches cut high above the knee lay fast asleep . |
| 3 | He was tall and lean , a long dark shape in a sombre cotte of dark brown or black , cut short below the knee for riding . |
| 4 | Everything goes soft at the knees , as if fumed with poppy . |
| 5 | Now we know the real meaning of going weak at the knees . |
| 6 | She 'd always thought that the phrase ‘ going weak at the knees ’ was an over-used cliché with no reference to reality , yet that was exactly how she felt . |
| 7 | Instead , here she was , going weak at the knees like an adolescent schoolgirl . |
| 8 | Abruptly , the sensations she 'd felt that night in St Lucia , when they 'd come so close to making love , engulfed her with such force that she felt weak at the knees . |
| 9 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 10 | All the snotty spotty little nerds who support them , who would go weak at the knees and soil themselves if they ever ever went to see MUFC and met the abovementioned evil evil types . |
| 11 | There was something about his voice that moved her , made her go weak at the knees . |
| 12 | IT 'S the picture to make even the strongest beefcake Gladiator go weak at the knees as the stars of the hit TV series show off their biggest fans , the Gladiatots . |
| 13 | For the slightest skirl of the pipes makes the retired cleaner go WEAK at the knees , break out in a cold SWEAT and SHAKE uncontrollably . |
| 14 | Show me a woman who says Dane Jacobsen does n't make her go weak at the knees and I 'll show you a liar ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Show me a woman who says Dane Jacobsen does n't make her go weak at the knees , and I 'll show you a liar ! ’ |
| 16 | The Milton Humberside whose looks could make a woman turn weak at the knees , and whose ducted fluorescent shelf units were in use from Hartlepool to Exeter and back again ? |