Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 2 | ‘ Lady Amelia , you admitted that you found Lady Eleanor 's corpse in her room and , together with these sweet sisters , moved it to the foot of the stairs to make her death appear an accident . |
| 3 | After sorely abusing the corpse , they buried it at the foot of the gallows , intending the burial as a final disgrace . |
| 4 | We followed her to the foot of the stairs and she bawled up it , ‘ Otto ? |
| 5 | Thornton rebuilt it at the foot of the castle ramparts . |
| 6 | They said no word to the landlord , they drank his ale instead ; But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed . |
| 7 | They said no word to the landlord , they drank his ale instead , but they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of a narrow bed . |
| 8 | Philip Tufnell is welcomed back to Test cricket after his appendix operation by a Waqar Younis yorker that hit him on the foot |
| 9 | Serving and former guardsmen stood to attention as Princess Diana , dressed in black , took the wreath from two old soldiers and placed it at the foot of the memorial in Horseguards Parade . |
| 10 | Garvey , anxious to keep their line of work secret , met him at the foot of the ladder with whispered protests and badly disguised anger . |
| 11 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 12 | After that dogs bit me on the feet . |
| 13 | He took her to the foot of the elaborately draped four-poster and opened an iron-banded chest . |
| 14 | This interchange brought us to the foot of the bad step beneath Crib Goch summit . |
| 15 | Rogers and Brett immediately flanked him at the foot of the steps and walked with him as he shook hands with each member of the Zimbalan mission in turn . |