Example sentences of "[verb] us on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 2 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 3 | My friend 's friend advised us on the best solicitors for a rape case , but warned that the final bill might be enough to buy a flat in Mayfair . |
| 4 | Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday , which would have meant waiting around for five days . |
| 5 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 6 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 7 | She 'll set us on the right track . ’ |
| 8 | So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do . |
| 9 | We rely on the good advice of our solicitors who advise us on the appropriate action to take . |
| 10 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 11 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 12 | Endless discussions over the map decide us on the Deep South . |
| 13 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 14 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 15 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 16 | ‘ That 'll get us on the right footing , ’ he said , ‘ and no arguments . |
| 17 | The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path . |
| 18 | In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony . |
| 19 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 20 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |
| 21 | He can advise us on the best brochure layouts , promotional photography , video or slide presentation — the whole package . |
| 22 | Like many errors , it catches us on the two horns of a false choice . |
| 23 | Annabel had said as much to Father Ross the last time he had come to tea , and Father Ross had looked at her sternly over his glasses , saying that if we all understood the way the Universe was run what would there be left for God to tell us on the Last Day . |