Example sentences of "feet [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had let go , he would have fallen about thirty feet on to a narrow ledge , where boxes had been placed to break his fall . |
| 2 | I plugged my naked feet in between the empty seats as tears rolled down my cheeks . |
| 3 | Having completed the very demanding annual Personal Weapons Test , each section member was required to run up a plank of wood to a window-frame , shoot at a target on the other side of the window , and then throw himself six feet down into a simulated building interior . |
| 4 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 5 | One phone call to other parents will bind you together — and give you the parent power to put all your combined feet down with a loud stamp . |
| 6 | There is a big bundle of feathers called the incubator bird which lays its eggs six feet down in the hot black sand , and whose offspring emerge huge and fully feathered against the heat . |
| 7 | These specialised workers , known to entomologists as repletes , never leave the nest but inhabit galleries six feet down in the red earth . |
| 8 | Miranda , in black linen shorts and halter top , lay with her feet up on the terracotta-coloured sofa , enjoying her idleness . |
| 9 | Kenneth sighed with pretended regret , putting his feet up on the low wall of the terrace and rocking his seat back on its rear legs as he shaded his eyes with one hand . |
| 10 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 11 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 12 | I 'm gon na put me feet up for a few minutes , do you want now we 've nearly finished ? |
| 13 | Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office . |
| 14 | You 're probably putting your feet up after a hard day , looking forward to a quiet evening in , perhaps ? |
| 15 | This 17th-century farmhouse and watermill is situated 1,100 feet up in the beautiful and rugged mountain countryside of the Snowdonia National Park . |
| 16 | And Vasilissa stuck her feet out on the other side . |
| 17 | Nutty had manoeuvred through the rather narrow gate and was trying to keep Midnight from eating a lavender bush by the front door , and his feet out of a rosebed . |
| 18 | It is an exhilarating walk to the Point , where the cliffs tower to a height of 300 feet , but the great feature that tempts motorists from their cars is a spectacular detached column of rock that rises 200 feet out of the angry waves at its base . |
| 19 | Picking the feet out from the same side can save valuable seconds . |
| 20 | Nenna sat moving her feet about inside the spacious wellingtons . |