Example sentences of "at [art] foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the right are some rocks , and at the foot of them the sheep are feeding . |
| 2 | His thoughts were running north and west , up into Lochaber , the oakwoods and pinewoods at the foot of Loch Arkaig which had cradled him in his boyhood . |
| 3 | She stopped in the shelter of a stone wall , drank a cup of coffee , consulted the map and decided to aim for a twenty-five mile circuit which would bring her out , eventually , at the foot of the steep hill near the village . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And there we were again , at the foot of the pitch of our failure , two pitches from the Fish . |
| 6 | Orpiere , reached by turning west off the N75 Grenoble road about 25km north of Sisteron , is a little village which lies at the foot of a cirque of crags . |
| 7 | The Baskan Valley rises at the foot of Elbrus , with its subsidiary valleys of Cheget , Adyl Su and Adyr Su leading to some of the most spectacular climbing available . |
| 8 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
| 9 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 10 | Scott expects ‘ pockets of horror ’ among those who hate sport or would do not relish a stadium at the foot of the garden , but he senses excitement generally . |
| 11 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 12 | They knew she took bread to her mother , jam she had made from the blackcurrants at the foot of the garden but the basket always came back heavy with fresh eggs , a bunch of carrots from the bog , plums that they loved , sweet hard yellow apples . |
| 13 | ‘ This may sting a bit , but it 's good stuff , ’ said a new young private reassuringly , as he aimed a can of tinc benz spray at the foot of a young blonde WRAC girl . |
| 14 | At the foot of the post are horizontal beams and diagonal beams to carry the weight of the uprights . |
| 15 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 16 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 17 | There are dozens of hedges , which the Prince is growing in order to create topiary ; there is also an avenue of trimmed and rounded golden yew trees leading the eye , in classic style , to a folly at the foot of the park . |
| 18 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 19 | It emerges at the foot of Eglwyseg Mountain , a wild-looking spot described by my host of the previous night as ‘ Injun country ’ . |
| 20 | She writes about her country home : ‘ The old toad is rolling his drum down at the foot of the hill , and the crunch , crunch of the cows is near to my window over the barbecue . |
| 21 | After depositing my faint-hearted photographer at the foot of the craggy slope , I locked the Discovery 's transmission into low-ratio first gear for the steep climb , revved the big V8 engine decisively and gingerly eased out the clutch . |
| 22 | You see , the cross preaches a radical message to us all — it proclaims that the ground is level at the foot of the cross . |
| 23 | Caspar was way down the bottom of the field near the wood at the foot of Mrs Wright 's lawn . |
| 24 | 6.6 Interior of typical flint mine gallery at Grimes Graves , Norfolk , showing the black flint seam at the foot of the wall . |
| 25 | Samples from the horse were analysed , and the isotope results showed that quarries high up on Mount Pentelikon were the source , rather than the more numerous and better-known quarries at the foot of the mountain . |
| 26 | Yet is it not at the foot of the Cross that the theology of Joshua 6 falls and dies ? |
| 27 | He groped his way through the shadows at the foot of the stairs , located the large brass handle and turned it with both hands . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At the foot of the bed , the toe-caps of his shoes shone blackly . |
| 30 | At the foot of her bed , the cat Hastings rose , turned around and around , pushing his paw gently into the eiderdown , and then curling into the soft silk hollow . |