Example sentences of "at her foot [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd be very antagonistic when I was putting the jesses on , so the first thing she would do when I picked her up was pull at her feet and try to work herself loose . |
| 2 | The woman stood there with the bags at her feet and said out loud , to no one , not to O , not to the child , not to the singer , just stood there and threw her head back and stood there , framed against the blue sky and green hills of France , with the train leaving now , she screamed out loud , over and over , oh fuck , fuck , fuck , fuck , fuck . |
| 3 | He seized the hall in his teeth , brought it back to his mistress , dropped it at her feet and waited expectantly . |
| 4 | In the epicentre of the maelstrom , with the moon at her feet and crowned with the stars was Maggie , surprisingly unmoved . |
| 5 | Monique Lavaux deposited the dog at her feet and vanished into the house , to return almost immediately with a tall jug , clanking with ice , and two tumblers . |
| 6 | She picked up the bags at her feet and plodded to the white wooden door , feeling in her bag for the key . |
| 7 | She pushed at the curl , then reached down for the shoulder-bag that lay at her feet and dug out an ebony hair pick . |
| 8 | Carrie sighed to herself as she threw the soiled towelling napkin in an enamel bucket at her feet and placed the dean and folded napkin under the baby 's bottom . |
| 9 | Jinny looked down at her feet and spoke very quickly , so that he could not interrupt her . |