Example sentences of "[adv prt] on foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of funeral guests were beginning to filter in on foot from the outlying corners of the kingdom , bringing sacrificial fighting cocks , pigs and magnificently decked-out water-buffalo . |
| 2 | Us going in on foot and then the equipment being airlifted in is about as arsy-versy as you can get . |
| 3 | However much of a challenge the town presented , I figured I would cause less stir if I went in on foot than in a four-wheeled horseless vehicle . |
| 4 | Miners flocked in on foot and horseback , by cart and camel . |
| 5 | And so he sets off on foot , aiming nowhere . |
| 6 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 7 | He smashed a hole in the shop window using a hammer and grabbed about £3,000-worth of gold jewellery before making off on foot . |
| 8 | If his tutor and his mother had not restrained him despite his desire , The boy , as boys will , would have rushed off on foot . |
| 9 | Rich men in gowns , dresses and Roman robes set off on foot to north , south , east and west . |
| 10 | Michele rejoined her and they set off on foot . |
| 11 | The attack went on for up to five minutes before the two attackers made off on foot . |
| 12 | Neighbours reported hearing up to eight shots before the gunmen made off on foot . |
| 13 | There had been partisans hidden up there during the war , before you … but now only the shepherds used the long-abandoned houses and they went up on foot with their flocks . |
| 14 | From where you park , there is another , minor , two-minute cable-car ride to the summit , or you can zigzag up on foot in about forty minutes . |
| 15 | OUT ON FOOT |
| 16 | An hour before then , a force of grenadiers will set out on foot from the village down the road . |
| 17 | Most trips involve a certain amount of walking and most people can walk , with 97 per cent of the population able to go out on foot . |
| 18 | She was a woman of fine physical strength , ready to go out on foot or in a canoe when called for . |
| 19 | We took a rickety public bus with him twenty miles out of town and then struck out on foot for several hours into the wilderness . |
| 20 | He set out on foot as it was getting dark , and had already walked three or four miles when he saw a cart , half-full of hay , by the side of the road . |
| 21 | She left her cleaning-woman , Maryann , in charge of the house , and set out on foot one evening . |
| 22 | I sent my luggage on by train and after lunch , I started out on foot . |
| 23 | He soon decided that he would never be a successful artist and set out on foot to tour France and Germany and contribute articles to newspapers and magazines , including The Times . |
| 24 | Other reports were that numbers of people had set out on foot from Tirana for Dürres and Vlore in response to rumours . |
| 25 | ‘ The only thing we can do — make our own way out on foot , ’ he declared levelly . |
| 26 | ‘ I like nothing better than getting out on foot on my shift , ’ he said . |
| 27 | One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well ! |
| 28 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 29 | This is also the only way for motorists who have been refused permission at Killilan to use the private road , or who did n't like to ask , and are fit enough to do eight miles there and back on foot . |
| 30 | We left Canjuers on the Monday morning and arrived later on that day at a small village , from where we would march back on foot to Orange . |