Example sentences of "[pron] feet on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 2 | He 'd been dropping drives at my feet on the beach in practice . |
| 3 | That three and a half years changed my life completely and set my feet on paths which they would never have taken if the war had not occurred . |
| 4 | ‘ Kathie and Laura have helped me to keep my feet on the ground , ’ says John . |
| 5 | But they keep my feet on the ground — they do n't treat me any differently . |
| 6 | Well , I cycled up quite slowly behind him and then I stopped with my feet on the ground and felt for the gun . |
| 7 | As ever , Mary made sure I kept my feet on the ground . |
| 8 | On another occasion I was sitting on a bank with my feet on the headland , and Walter was coming along with his horses . |
| 9 | I had my feet on the ground as the echoes came back . |
| 10 | A tattooed arm reaches down from the high cab — lovely , real arm , wonderful words ! — and I scale the high steps to sit with my feet on a coil of rope . |
| 11 | I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door . |
| 12 | I stamped my feet on the cobbles as a sign that I was freezing . |
| 13 | ‘ By Airborne , ’ I said smugly , crossing my feet on the edge of his desk . |
| 14 | I have some Capricorn , which keeps my feet on the ground . |
| 15 | And she said so many chairs are so deep that my legs are dangling , she said whereas this one , it 's so comfortable and I can get my feet on the floor . |
| 16 | I expect it 's hard for them to find their feet on these shifting sands . ’ |
| 17 | The only sound was the crunch of their feet on the crusted snow . |
| 18 | tend to ginger up people whenever they think they are dragging their feet on something |
| 19 | It was difficult to keep their feet on the ground when they read about themselves in the newspapers : |
| 20 | Most prospective houseowners kept their feet on the ground and proceeded with caution , suspicious of unconvincing voices that called Do n't Worry It Will All Come Right In The End . |
| 21 | The two smallest men climbed in the back , sitting on the edge of the seat with the slim body of Simon behind their backs , their feet on Quinn . |
| 22 | The high-level officials from State Department stamped their feet on the tarmac and waited for the aircraft doors to open . |
| 23 | Her men seemed to have their feet on solid ground , but in truth they drifted like the kites , tethered to reality only by the memory of her . |
| 24 | The committees ‘ never get to the leading edge because large companies usually do n't understand new technology , so they drag their feet on committees until they are able to catch up . ’ |
| 25 | But by this time he realised that the best opportunities came to those who kept their feet on the ground — not their heads in the clouds . |
| 26 | Once they had set their feet on the path they tumbled down bold and bouncy as puppies . |
| 27 | To judge from the surviving traces , this applies more especially to communities which in the course of the last five millennia have dragged themselves from the morass of primitive communism and set their feet on ground firm enough to support civilized ways of life . |
| 28 | We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us . |
| 29 | I could hear their feet on the stairs , then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside : ‘ Pew ! |
| 30 | She needs someone solid and dependable , with their feet on the ground , someone strong enough to take her instability , her neurotic insecurity — ’ |