Example sentences of "on [pos pn] feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you like either oor Jonna or Bob Lamb ti stop 'ere and see ti t'stock until George 's is on 'is feet again ? ’ he suggested . |
| 2 | As we chatted , most of the five dogs sat on my feet . |
| 3 | I 've fell over again — I just ca n't stay on my feet . |
| 4 | ‘ I was ten times worse myself and got over it on my feet , ’ he said in casual dismissal , opening his raincoat and reaching inside for a cigarette . |
| 5 | My wardrobe may not be as current these days , and I hardly saw a movie for a year and a half while I was getting myself back on my feet financially . |
| 6 | Not that I am old or likely to fall , not that I have ever for one moment been unsteady on my feet . |
| 7 | But I was on my feet in a second . |
| 8 | I was on my feet . |
| 9 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 10 | I 've always been good at thinking on my feet . |
| 11 | I felt like flinging my arms about , twirling , leaping into an aerial somersault and landing back on my feet again . |
| 12 | I was on my feet — I 'd tear his kidneys out . |
| 13 | As soon as I 'm back on my feet . |
| 14 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm on my feet a lot of the day — washing and cooking for a man keeps me busy ’ |
| 16 | Cooper was not in court to hear the judgement , but the effect on McMahon was explosive : ‘ One moment I was sitting bent over in the dock in utter despair , the next I was on my feet with arms outstretched , screaming at the judges . |
| 17 | Now I bound about the countryside on my horse or on my feet with my two children and five dogs . |
| 18 | ‘ I was attempting to get up on my feet and if my boot caught Bob Jackson then it was accidental . |
| 19 | He set me on my feet . |
| 20 | This way , if I reach the end of the cone without noticing , the cone lifts off the floor and , as it can not possible pass through the tension assembly , I get plenty of warning without having the weights landing on my feet ( ouch ! ) and my knitting on the floor ! |
| 21 | ‘ Am I still on my feet ? ’ asked Sergeant Joe . |
| 22 | A further delay before I am on my feet and , in fact , it is now tomorrow . |
| 23 | He said he was pleased about the help offered to him but stressed to sister that he regarded the need for help as temporary : " Until I 'm really back on my feet again " . |
| 24 | Here I feel awake and ready , compelled to be on my feet when the sun reaches us , and the cattle , fretful and peckish , are released in a torrent of bay and brown and white , their huge horns gradually unlocking and separating as they spread out into the plain . |
| 25 | You 're sitting on my feet . ’ |
| 26 | We were both thrown down and began to roll across the deck , but I was on my feet first and climbed up into the sails , hand over hand . |
| 27 | and dropped it on my feet . |
| 28 | I need to get myself back on my feet and forget all this and get it all sorted out and so I can live my life again . |
| 29 | On my feet are wooden clogs . |
| 30 | Martin here would have done as much , but that I was none too secure on my feet , and he would not let me undertake the journey home alone . |