Example sentences of "and [pron] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane and I are off to Italy — a photographic assignment — otherwise we would have held onto them a while longer . |
| 2 | ‘ If Major Calder and I are about to be deprived of your services , ’ Carew answered evenly , ‘ then we 'll have to use another and faster method of disrupting the IRB organisation . ’ |
| 3 | A massive dose of sun cream and a sun visor and I 'm back to my usual prattling self . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've lost three pounds and I 'm back to my weight of all last season , 13 stone , although I will be even sharper if I come down another couple of pounds . |
| 5 | I 've a heavy afternoon ahead , and I 'm off to Paris tomorrow — by parachute if they ca n't get me in by any other method . |
| 6 | ‘ And I 'm off to Sweden . |
| 7 | I did it with erm , with er , I went from one and a half and I 'm down to one , 'cos I was , I I 've tasted my father 's sometimes , 'cos he thinks two and a half , he used to take three , and I 'm like aw it 's |
| 8 | Sebastian and I were later to be condemned from altars about divorce . |
| 9 | Sebastian and I were later to be condemned from altars about divorce . ’ |
| 10 | There were a number of warnings from RSGB which were included , and which were later to be added into the company prospectus . |
| 11 | ‘ And you 're on to a winner with the poll tax , paying the same as us . ’ |
| 12 | The boat 's on its side in the water and you 're nowhere to be seen but in fact it 's all quite straightforward , neither the boat nor you can sink and it 's simply a question of pulling the boat back upright again and carrying on sailing . |
| 13 | Well , that 's good if it 's working well , it 's working well , but here , if you 're here , say for a late afternoon meeting or something , and you 're wondering what these screaming bells are , they 're the night bells , and you can pick them up by picking up your handset and pressing 8 and that is it , and you 're through to the outside world . |
| 14 | As soon as you 've battered your opponent into near-submission , a power-up appears ( which the computer-controlled player appears to anticipate ) and you 're back to square one ! |
| 15 | ‘ Cheap , ’ Rose replied , quoting the pusher , ‘ the price of a few gallons of petrol and you 're off to paradise . ’ |
| 16 | Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’ |
| 17 | It worked , but I thought he was going to lose his mind when we found de Raimes locked in his solar and you were nowhere to be seen . |
| 18 | Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat . |
| 19 | S Group was led by Group Captain Donald Bennett , who we heard was a most formidable gentleman from ‘ down under ’ and who was mostly to be found at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon or at Wyton RAF Station , a few miles away . |
| 20 | Exactly one week later , on 5 April 1988 , the Colemans arrived back in Nicosia , moving into an apartment just vacated by Ibrahim El-Jorr , the Lebanese-American DEA informant whom Coleman had met briefly the previous year and who was now to be his co-worker in Operation Dome , reassessing the Lebanese narcotics trade at the start of a new opium-growing season . |
| 21 | Her mother at one time took in a lodger — and she was later to be raped by the man . |
| 22 | Dana made her intentions very clear and she was n't to be turned from her objective by the sight of Roman kissing Claudia . |
| 23 | NOW that the World Cup is over and we are back to the league games again , I think that all rugby supporters who were able to go to the matches or to watch it on television must admit that rugby was the winner . |
| 24 | We do n't now go on the Saga holidays , simply because they er or solely because you need to go down to Gatwick to catch the planes and we 're not to doing that East Midlands or . |
| 25 | And we 're up to our eyes at the garage just now . ’ |
| 26 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 27 | And we 're off to the States to join the NYPD for fun . |
| 28 | If the business is tomorrow , and we 're off to Sligo now , presumably I do n't get home tonight ? ’ |
| 29 | … welcome back … later on we 'll meet the ex con who 's doing time treading the boards … but first … sport and we 're off to the sunshine of Australia … to the heart of the outback to join Tim Russon |
| 30 | yes we 're at Wembley , Wembley , Wembley , we 're going to see Freddy Mercury and we 're off to Wembley |