Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 2 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 3 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 4 | Instead of shooting ourselves in the foot our people are asking , where does the fi fight start ? |
| 5 | A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot , the chairman , Sir Alan Cockshaw , admitted ruefully yesterday . |
| 6 | AS OPPOSITION to the palace coup in Peru mounts inside and outside the country , it seems President Alberto Fujimori , by turning the guns of dictatorship against his own government , has succeeded only in shooting himself in the foot . |
| 7 | BANKS seem to have become experts at shooting themselves in the foot . |
| 8 | I talked about shooting ourselves in the foot and that 's another example . |
| 9 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |
| 10 | If the patient can not lift the leg across , the therapist helps by supporting it under the foot and thigh , and taking it up gently . |