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‘A water may lap at feet.’

[⟨the water.nlap.v (:p at.p ⟨the (plur foot.n)⟩)]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

She looked up to see her son standing down on the shoreline, the water lapping at his feet, splashing across his clothes to darken them.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The water laps insistently at their feet and ankles, but there’s nothing other than the beat and the sound of Yunho’s breathing in his ear, nothing but the feeling of Yunho’s body effortless like it always is, feeding into Yoochun and letting him wash away.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Click for larger pic to see who’s who While the sun set, we pretty much just strolled along the beach and camwhored Nelson and I walked so near that the water was lapping at our feet.
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In the British National Corpus:

Slowly Peter opened the door to the river and stood there at the opening, the water lapping at his feet.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

That in itself should have alarmed him, but it was as if he was wrapped in cotton: everything was soft around the edges, and warm, even the water lapping gently at his bare feet.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

To end the day, we drove back to Ein Gev and spent the early evening relaxing in the warm but refreshing waters of thewatched the sun set as the water lapped at our feet.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Finally I just sat down to watch the boats in the distance while the water lapped at my feet.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The water lapped gently at their feet.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

She looked up to see her son standing down on the shoreline, the water lapping at his feet, splashing across his clothes to darken them.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The water laps at his feet.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.