Example sentences of "feet [conj] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Each combatant aims to floor his opponent , by knocking him off his feet or biting him behind the elbow . |
2 | Sally-Anne Tunstall would rather drop dead at his feet than accept him after this . |
3 | The boys stood this for as long as was decent , and then , after a particularly heavy blow to the head , the brothers grabbed the Bosnian refugee by both feet and up-ended him over the sand . |
4 | Vi jumped to her feet and followed him to the door of the church , wincing in the sweet , cold air . |
5 | He loosened the gyves , dragged Corbett to his feet and bundled him through the door , along the passage and up the steps into the pure , dear air . |
6 | Despite his terror of darkness and subterranean places , he wanted the ground to open at his feet and swallow him into its blackest hole . |
7 | He wedged his clothes into a gap between boulders above the waterline , then grabbed Carey 's feet and pulled him towards the edge . |
8 | With a cheery wave he left them , and Kathleen helped the man to his feet and put him in a wheelchair . |
9 | Ruth shot to her feet and faced him across the table . |
10 | Whitlock sprung to his feet and caught him on the side of the head with a stinging haymaker then followed up with two brutal body punches that dropped him to his knees . |