Example sentences of "[vb pp] foot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , while the water was boiling , I had to find some piece of stout wood to hold the boy 's dropped foot in the proper position — ‘ the position of function ’ as Reid had called it . |
| 2 | The data — which is provided foot by foot — is electronically gathered and later analysed with a special software program for pressure transient analysis called PIE . |
| 3 | Lydia had barely set foot beyond the ashram in three years when Lorne turned up to kidnap her for a reconnaissance mission with him to Celebes island , eight hundred miles away to the north-east . |
| 4 | It was a just over a week since she had first set foot on the Dorset coast path . |
| 5 | It was ironic , as it must be presumed that he had never set foot on French soil . |
| 6 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |
| 8 | I 've been a ZZAP ! fan since Issue 68 , and I 'd like to say it 's the most amazing thing that has set foot on earth . |
| 9 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
| 10 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 11 | Neckar Island was owned by Lord Cobham , who had never actually set foot on it himself . |
| 12 | Having hardly set foot on American soil , and with out a second thought , he boarded the next liner and sailed back . |
| 13 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 14 | By then all they wanted to do was set foot on dry land . |
| 15 | ‘ I should n't have set foot near this rotten mess , ’ he wrote in the diary . |
| 16 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 17 | Mr Yardley , according to his wife , had never set foot in the tent . |
| 18 | Charlie Hatton was a cocky little lorry driver who had probably never set foot in Mayfair all his life . |
| 19 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 20 | Mr Phil Gregory , Labour agent , said yesterday that , at the count , he turned to the beaten Labour candidate , Mr Douglas Naysmith , and said : ‘ Would n't it be ironic if you were beaten by people who had never even set foot in the constituency ? ’ |
| 21 | So far ‘ King James III and VIII ’ , for whom all this sacrifice was being made , had not yet set foot in either of his kingdoms . |
| 22 | ‘ He has never set foot in Israel and yet claims to be an expert in Israeli affairs . |
| 23 | She had set foot in Skipton and passed through Keighley , but these were small country towns . |
| 24 | In a piece of fancy footwork of which Gekko would have been proud , America 's fat cats have capped a record year by undermining President-Elect Bill Clinton 's plans to soak the rich , before he has even set foot in the White House . |
| 25 | ‘ When the proposals failed , I gave up on the profession and have not set foot in the Institute since , but it is characteristic of Bill 's commitment that he has carried on regardless . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We are both like cheap wine — we do n't travel well , ’ explains Peter , who to this day has never set foot in America , let alone Hollywood . |
| 27 | I dealt with the owner personally , and he has n't set foot in the place since the war . |
| 28 | I had been there once or twice but she had never set foot in my father 's new home . |
| 29 | If it was n't for her we 'd never have set foot in Farmhouse Grim . |
| 30 | However , he had never set foot in the village again . |