The phrase "a toe on the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing a physical location or a part of something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "He was so close to the edge that he had a toe on the precipice."
Alternatives: "a foot on the" or "a step on the".
They can do almost everything right, but they're facing a team doing them one better, with karma keeping a toe on the scale in their favor.
Another thing, when I was very small, at eight after the amber lamp in the hall was switched off, when the night-light shone, I used to feel one of my digits grown massive but weightless, a toe on the loom, waxing, palpitating frontiers of the room.
Sometimes it is the man who places his weight on the ball of one foot, the other foot pointing down to rest a toe on the floor (this is called "the needle"), while the woman promenades him.
This time the Hull No7 hit the attempt on target and Evans stuck a toe on the ball to steer beyond a wrong-footed De Gea.
Hodgson had been ready to take him to Euro 2012 only for Walker to damage a toe on the final day of the domestic season against Fulham.
For all that intrepid and irreplaceable astronauts may keep a toe on the threshold of the solar system, Mathilde, Mars, and its other wonders do not yet belong to them.
This time it was Pedro toasting Leadbitter and, though his cross missed everyone in the six-yard box, César Azpilicueta was able to stretch and get a toe on it at the far post to turn it back across.
He hurt his left knee and a toe on his left foot Sunday against the Houston Texans.
No wound that might have led to infection was found in monkeys 1 or 2, but a lesion with purulent incrustation was present on a toe tip on the right hind limb of monkey 3. C. tetani was isolated from this lesion, and the tetanus toxin gene was detected by PCR.
Instead, he says, the trip is about reconnaissance: a tentative toe on the Tarmac before a first tilt at the full 26.2-mile distance in 2014.
Rather, he got himself in roughly the right position: Marco Reus's shot hit him and bounced wide, while he flicked a foot at Mario Götze's effort and got a sufficient toe on the ball so that the ball was diverted just past the post.
