Example sentences of "on the other foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boot was on the other foot then , was n't it ? |
| 2 | These both include many steps with the so-called ‘ dotted ’ rhythm i.e. in 3/4 the dancer steps on the first beat , holds on the second and briefly takes weight on the other foot on the third before stepping onwards . |
| 3 | Only once , in a fleeting reference to Matisse is there a sense of the boot being on the other foot , of art offering a sense of liberation from social ideology . |
| 4 | Torquay , though , can now look forward to their home tie against West Ham when the seven-league boot will be on the other foot . |
| 5 | The boot was now on the other foot in the Middle East where the Americans were the critics and Britain was shouldering the primary responsibility for the stability of the area . |
| 6 | All hell would have been let loose by the French plants and the French Government if the boot had been on the other foot and anyone had attempted to transfer products and facilities from France to the UK . |
| 7 | But now , the boot was on the other foot . |
| 8 | When the long-awaited Invasion finally started , we were sure that the lives which had been lost were now going to be partly justified , because the boot was definitely on the other foot and the Germans had had it . |
| 9 | But there may well have been situations in which the boot was on the other foot ; and in the centuries before the tenth , the centuries in which slavery was steadily declining , there is no reason to suppose that land was scarce , or that the landlords normally had the whip-hand . |
| 10 | A. ’ And you 'd get point A followed by points B and C , and on the one hand F , and on the other foot G , until you could see the whole alphabet stretching ahead , each letter a Sahara in itself to be crawled across . |
| 11 | At the height of his troubles we had a similar conversation … only the boot was on the other foot and I just used the same words back to him . |
| 12 | Well , the boot was on the other foot . |
| 13 | The boot was on the other foot however when the President 's wife Naina kept Norma Major waiting 25 minutes for a lunch date at the Savoy . |
| 14 | But sometimes the cowboy boot was on the other foot . |
| 15 | But the re-organisation means the boot is now on the other foot as far as money is concerned . |
| 16 | ‘ I should think the boot 's on the other foot when it comes to corruption , dear girl . |
| 17 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 18 | When it came to dressmaking the boot was on the other foot . |
| 19 | As we all know , it is a matter of only a few weeks before the joyous day when the boot will be on the other foot and the right hon. Gentleman will be sitting on the Opposition Front Bench making speeches on timetable motions . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin talked of the boot being on the other foot . |
| 21 | Is there anything else that you learned thinking of the exercise now listening when you put the shoe on the other foot and you have to stick to . |
| 22 | The boot is on the other foot |
| 23 | The boot is now on the other foot , so to speak . |
| 24 | How would you feel if the boot was on the other foot , and he was suggesting he went and spent all that money going away with his foot-loose and fancy-free brother ? |