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 .
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