Example sentences of "feet and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stiffly , feeling like an old woman , she got to her feet and trudged between the hummocks till she reached the top of one of the new dunes on the shoreline . |
| 2 | He leapt to his feet and sprinted across the room . |
| 3 | Jock was on his feet and leaning on the parapet of the trench . |
| 4 | One of the men in the room got to his feet and crossed to a well-stocked drinks cabinet , refilling his glass , offering the same service to his colleagues . |
| 5 | He got to his feet and crossed to the window of the office . |
| 6 | In the epicentre of the maelstrom , with the moon at her feet and crowned with the stars was Maggie , surprisingly unmoved . |
| 7 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 8 | Ross slowly withdrew his arm from about her shoulders , a muscle beating tightly in his jaw as he rose to his feet and walked across the room to where some bottles and cut-glass decanters stood on a tray . |
| 9 | Nadirpur climbed wearily to his feet and walked to the window . |
| 10 | Laidlaw took another mouthful of beer then got to his feet and walked to the stairs at the end of the room . |
| 11 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 12 | Without a word Alexander Vass rose to his feet and crossed to a small desk at the far side of the room . |
| 13 | Whitlock got to his feet and crossed to the dispenser against the wall . |
| 14 | Hitch got to his feet and crossed to the door . |
| 15 | Miles rose to his feet and fiddled with the knobs of his gleaming fixed-spool reel . |
| 16 | Still idly curious , Guy got to his feet and strolled across the bailey and past the hall . |
| 17 | It is very easy to devise a machine that will punch one rivet hole every six inches , but imagine a column of newsprint in which every letter o was a hole through the paper , and then imagine that the paper was magnified to a width of two feet and pasted onto a sheet of wrought iron , half an inch thick . |
| 18 | It flew up from under his feet and rolled down the steep path . |
| 19 | A bottle swept up to his feet and rolled in a rock pool . |
| 20 | ‘ The only way we can know that people want to see the Fun Factory becoming a success is if they vote with their feet and come to a meeting to show their support . ’ |
| 21 | The fellow swayed on his feet and staggered through the doorway . |
| 22 | Your wrists are tied to your ankles , a metal bar is passed under your knees , you are lifted up , hanging from this bar , a wet floor cloth is placed over your face so that you can not breathe , and your head and the soles of your feet and beaten with a leather belt . |
| 23 | Run off their feet and beaten by a record score , it was a good job the players could n't hear one Irish journalist in the stand : ‘ My God ! |
| 24 | After that race his family remembers him coming home with badly bruised and torn feet and looking like a skeleton . |
| 25 | No one could call Graham Little , our Bergführer and former Mountaineering Council of Scotland president , in the first flush of youth , but the man 's well over six feet and built like the proverbial … house , which does help . |
| 26 | ‘ You do what you want , Mike , ’ she snapped then got to her feet and strode to the door . |
| 27 | Suddenly , Boz sprang to his feet and strode towards the group outside the caravan , his face screwed up in fury . |
| 28 | The eyebrow quirked further , but fitzAlan merely rose to his feet and reached for the pack on the floor beside the bed . |
| 29 | But as he spoke the figure jumped to its feet and ran to the edge of the shelf . |
| 30 | After mopping up the mess-tin with a large piece of French bread that had accompanied the stew , I got to my feet and looked around the barn . |