Example sentences of "[verb] we [be] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job . |
| 2 | But the figures show we are on the right track . ’ |
| 3 | I think you can see we are on the road to recovery . |
| 4 | ‘ I suspect we are on the way to recovery and coming out of recession . |
| 5 | Just we got we 're on the move |
| 6 | And I checked we were on the causeway . |
| 7 | But he says : ‘ I honestly believe we are on the verge of the big breakthrough , promotion to the First Division and making London the headquarters of rugby league in this country . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ D' you reckon we 're on the right track , Geoff ? ’ |
| 9 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 10 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 11 | Well I think we 're on the right , on the right side of it . |
| 12 | We need not doubt that the epithet is justified and I think we are on the right track in attributing its powers to nerve cells with their trigger features and projective zones , but the connecting links are missing . |
| 13 | We would like to think we 're on the right road to producing a successful senior line-up . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I said we 're on the wrong road . |
| 15 | You said we 're on the same side . |
| 16 | ‘ How … how long have we been on the move ? ’ she asked . |