Example sentences of "over a barrel " in BNC.
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| 1 | Op has actor over a barrel |
| 2 | I do n't know who you 're really working for but it must be a pretty influential organization to have the editor of the New York Times over a barrel . ’ |
| 3 | Wilson was a worried man , and I did n't care for him being stretched over a barrel . |
| 4 | They would shake their empty hands over a barrel lined with tinfoil , from which he could at a later date draw out benison . |
| 5 | It is because that fear exists that some home owners know perfectly well that they have the Government over a barrel . |
| 6 | Lange admitted that he had " been over a barrel " after the French government had threatened that unless the accord was accepted , New Zealand would be denied access to French markets for its agricultural exports , the mainstay of its economy , |
| 7 | And I always like doing business with a man who knows he 's over a barrel . |
| 8 | It will have to be for us at least twenty one days , that 's the absolute rock bottom minimum I would have thought therefore the French I suspect have us over a barrel and we would have to cough up for the enormous expenditure of an extra building at Strasbourg which is not needed erm as I understand it er that er view I savoured I do n't erm have the details of that . |
| 9 | Anyhow , ’ he continued , ‘ the three of us spent the day locked in consultation , as Marc called it , the result being that he came charging to my rescue , routed the two con-merchants , who thought they 'd got me over a barrel , and generally behaved like the perfect human being he is . ’ |
| 10 | Got them over , they , they said , they said they know they 've got them over a barrel . |