Example sentences of "[verb] us at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 2 | sets us at a painterly remove from decorously observed suffering and does little to prepare us for the replacement of the distant tangled hair of Ariadne by immediate presence of the directly primitive |
| 3 | ‘ It puts us at a great disadvantage playing at Selhurst Park . |
| 4 | Moreover , such texts are the more dangerous in that they affect us at a subconscious level . |
| 5 | ‘ By pushing the boat out unilaterally , ’ says Weir Group 's Ron Garrick , ‘ the Government has put us at a severe disadvantage compared with our German and American counterparts . |