Example sentences of "we be [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time in the early hours of the morning we cross over what seems to me to be a pontoon bridge , then suddenly we are up to our thighs in water . |
| 2 | Right now we know that the angle from where we are up to the top is forty degrees . |
| 3 | When we come here , we know what we are up to , but our families , hundreds of miles away , suffer the most . |
| 4 | I think we are on to a loser with this one , but good luck … |
| 5 | All I can say on that is that , as regards the delivery of patient care in the areas from which we have received trust applications , we are on to a winner . |
| 6 | With our high standard of food and a quality presentation , we are on to a winner and the school has been very impressed so far . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We have football on Sunday , Monday , Tuesday and by Wednesday we are round to the European games . |
| 8 | Well I think we are round to any other business I suppose . |
| 9 | We are about to be attacked . |
| 10 | ‘ We are about to really start approaching businesses in the Darlington area to ask for money or help in kind , ’ said Robin . |
| 11 | And so we are back to the beginning … |
| 12 | He thrust a mess tin full of steak and kidney into my hand , and with a scowl on his face he remarked , ‘ After this lot , Piper , we are back to the usual shit , unless something special turns up , like cooks and normal rations ! ’ |
| 13 | Now it seems we are back to normal , with catchy weather frustrating attempts to get on where crops are fit , and further kicking of heels in prospect once the winter barleys have been cleared . |
| 14 | From today , we are back to the business of government as usual , with a return to all the huge problems of recession , Europe , health and education where they were left a month ago when the General Election was called . |
| 15 | We are back to night scenes again . |
| 16 | Here we are back to the ideas about roles and spheres which I discussed earlier in this chapter ( the work of Harding , Goodwin and so on ) . |
| 17 | Ardiles said : ‘ When we are back to full-strength there would n't have been a place for him . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Otherwise we are back to that old hypocritical state where the game is amateur in name only . |
| 20 | If the answer to these questions is ‘ yes ’ , then we are back to something rather similar to Durkheim 's adaptive function : today 's criminals are in fact helping to usher in the better society of tomorrow . |
| 21 | We are back to the three act drama with which we began . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , yes , we are back to the potions . |
| 23 | We are back to trousers , hats and no hair at all . ’ |
| 24 | After the mixed card on St Patrick 's Day we are back to an all National Hunt affair and the main race , the Sportsman Hunter Chase , may go to Bajan Blues who almost brought off the shock defeat of Matt Reid at the last meeting . |
| 25 | In the first place , in the ( rare ) cases where sentence-meaning exhausts utterance-meaning ( i.e. where the speaker meant exactly what he said , no more , no less ) , the same content would be assigned both to semantics and pragmatics In other words , we would need to restrict the notion of utterance-meaning in such a way that we subtract sentence-meaning , and in that case we are back to a definition of pragmatics by residue . |
| 26 | ‘ If the white-only referendum on March 17 does not back President De Klerk 's reforms , then we are back to square one . |
| 27 | That 's absolutely true , we are back to our normal situation now . |
| 28 | And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday . |
| 29 | ‘ So we are off to Watling Street ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ That is why , ’ the coroner barked , getting up , ‘ we are off to Newgate to see Solper . ’ |