Example sentences of "[verb] we on the [adj] " 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 And you 'll be pleased to know that Frank Dobson has agreed to meet us on the fourteenth of June and we will make sure , to the best of our effort , that that policy will be endorsed .
4 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 .
5 Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday , which would have meant waiting around for five days .
6 I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs .
7 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 .
8 Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months .
9 She 'll set us on the right track . ’
10 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 .
11 We rely on the good advice of our solicitors who advise us on the appropriate action to take .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Endless discussions over the map decide us on the Deep South .
15 ‘ Older than you , married , female : it was up to me to keep us on the straight and narrow .
16 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 .
17 Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it .
18 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 .
19 ‘ That 'll get us on the right footing , ’ he said , ‘ and no arguments .
20 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 .
21 The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path .
22 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 .
23 ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’
24 Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier .
25 Let's have a look at what yo , who 's gon na represent us on the old er features and benefits this morning ?
26 He can advise us on the best brochure layouts , promotional photography , video or slide presentation — the whole package .
27 Like many errors , it catches us on the two horns of a false choice .
28 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 .
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