Example sentences of "we [vb mod] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , if Killarney decide to allow the Down Royal executive a free date we should be up to our ears in runners . |
| 2 | ‘ I think we should be down to 1min 15secs or below . ’ |
| 3 | Come , Aycliffe , we must be off to Cheshire at once . ’ |
| 4 | But if we have everything ready to leave as soon as I get back from chess and I 'll make sure I leave promptly if we can come straight away then , with a bit of luck we 'll be on to the M twenty five b by half past four so we might |
| 5 | We 'll be over to dinner . |
| 6 | Otherwise we 'll be up to our necks with toffs in monocles and deer-stalkers all of 'em trailing manservants and frightening the cows and horses by blasting around in they great green Bentleys they all drive . ’ |
| 7 | If we win them three games that we got in hand then we 'll be up to about sixth place . |
| 8 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
| 9 | then I have to do something I suppose before we look round it 'll be August we 'll be off to Malta |
| 10 | We 'll be across to Colin as soon as the half time whistle goes . |
| 11 | If you are wondering why the Festival is shorter than usual — do n't worry — we 'll be back to our ‘ normal ’ July spot in 1993 [ Friday 9th–Sunday 18th ] ! |
| 12 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 13 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 14 | We 'll be back to what we usually are wo n't we ? |
| 15 | Most international staff in Sarajevo would be evacuated because the risks of staying on were too great , Mr Land said , adding : ‘ We 'll be down to a skeleton staff by the weekend . ’ |
| 16 | Most international staff in Sarajevo would be evacuated because the risks of staying on were too great , Mr Land said , adding : ‘ We 'll be down to a skeleton staff by the weekend . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We might be on to something here , ’ murmured Esther , her scheming mind leaping ahead . |
| 18 | We could be back to the boom that led to the crash that lost the job that paid for the house that Jack bought . |
| 19 | I remember coming home and discussing with my wife that another friend that it 'd only be a couple of weeks and we 'd be back to work . |
| 20 | I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand . |
| 21 | We shall be down to 80 per cent . |
| 22 | Soon all were aboard and waving to those unfortunate enough to stay behind , and we would be off to Dymchurch or some other exotic foreign place . |
| 23 | The underlying fear was that if we accepted any connection we would be back to the world of incomes policy . |
| 24 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 25 | We will be back to the failings of Management Budgeting . |
| 26 | Without them we will be back to poverty wages . ’ |
| 27 | Now education has of that thirty nine million the Education Department benefited by about eighteen million , and we took , I think it was erm four million out yesterday , we will be back to a net gain of fourteen million on education and social services have benefited since eighty five by about to the tune of nine million and or eight point six million , and we took about four hundred thousand out of that yesterday . |