Sentence examples for get one foot from inspiring English sources

"My gut feeling is they are trying to get one foot up on the competitors to instill consumer confidence," said Ray Green, director of the organic program of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

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At heart, this journey of six decades has been a matter of "how adroitly you get one foot to the next," as he describes his notion of rhythm.

12.42pm BST G-Mac does well to splash out to 25 feet: he only managed to get one foot in the bunker, and had little green to play with.

The sheriff carrying the injunction didn't get one foot into Attawapiskat before Chief Spence kicked him out.

I get one foot free but by the time I pry up another, Mickey has put the free foot back down on the glue.

Uruguay have got one foot on the plane back to Montevideo.

It's gotten so bad that there is even a website dedicated to the situation -- "Magazine Death Pool -- Who Will be Next?" (www.magazinedeathpool.com) who wryly notes, "If you've got 'home' or 'garden' in your title, you've got one foot already on the banana peel".

Updated at 12.12pm BST 11.20am BST Clegg says Britain is still relying on infrastructure "which in many ways has got one foot in the 19th century".

Teenagers will be convinced that you've got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

I've got one foot in each group.