Example sentences of "boot be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin talked of the boot being on the other foot . |
| 3 | Or they 've kicked the base of a door to make sure their boot is on comfortably . |
| 4 | The boot is on the other foot |
| 5 | ‘ I should think the boot 's on the other foot when it comes to corruption , dear girl . |
| 6 | The boot was on the other foot then , was n't it ? |
| 7 | But now , the boot was on the other foot . |
| 8 | However , recently a spokesman for a well-known oil company claimed that they were really the Davids in this country and that the boot WAS on the other foot' Doubtless , central and local government would also claim that they are simply the servants of the public and not their masters . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well , the boot was on the other foot . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But sometimes the cowboy boot was on the other foot . |
| 14 | When it came to dressmaking the boot was on the other foot . |
| 15 | 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 ? |