Example sentences of "[pron] feet [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair .
2 But it 's probably the sort of house where visitors feel sufficiently at ease to put their feet up on the sofa .
3 Venture capitalists like to keep close tabs on their investments , going down to the offices of the fledging chief executive officers once a week , putting their feet up on the desk and playing father confessor .
4 I would sit with her often for a whole hour , she with her feet up on the sofa , resting .
5 The kitchen , I assume , thought Leonora , and swung her feet up on the sofa , chuckling at the ludicrously large socks .
6 Tamsin puts her feet up on the table and asks why not .
7 You 're in the mood for a long spell at the crease , but the penis decides that it ca n't wait to get the game over and done with before heading back to the pavilion to put its feet up on the couch .
8 Now he sat out on the porch with his chair tilted back and his feet up on the rail , and he sipped at his beer as he watched the patterns of sunlight on the forest over on the far side of the track .
9 Tammuz threw himself into a chair and put his feet up on the edge of his workstation .
10 He put his feet up on the desk , tilted back the swivel executive chair and went to sleep .
11 Brown started to giggle to himself , put his feet up on the sofa and waited for the images and feelings to take possession of him .
12 Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard .
13 When the train started the Feldwebel sat down and put his feet up on the seat opposite .
14 Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes .
15 And he , and I remember ah , er er , I mean I was only , well I was sort of and he had his feet up on the table , he was smoking a cigarette and he , and he had a laid back attitude .
16 Secondly , he must make sure Hirst knuckles down and gets his feet back on the ground .
17 ‘ Interesting , ’ said Corman , as he sat back in his chair and banged his feet down on the row of seats in front of him .
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