Example sentences of "[verb] us 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 | Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday , which would have meant waiting around for five days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 6 | She 'll set us on the right track . ’ |
| 7 | We rely on the good advice of our solicitors who advise us on the appropriate action to take . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Endless discussions over the map decide us on the Deep South . |
| 11 | ‘ Older than you , married , female : it was up to me to keep us on the straight and narrow . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ That 'll get us on the right footing , ’ he said , ‘ and no arguments . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |
| 17 | Let's have a look at what yo , who 's gon na represent us on the old er features and benefits this morning ? |