Example sentences of "we [modal v] [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And here I must agree that I am beginning to fear that we may be on the edge of an age of the worst kind of mass production . |
| 2 | The Unionist fear is that we may be on the last verse of another . |
| 3 | We should be on the steps right in front of the door . ’ |
| 4 | We should be on the side of the ordinary people irrespective of what the multinationals want . ’ |
| 5 | It 's a long drive back to London , so perhaps we should be on our way . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And now we must be on our way again , ’ Mr Carson said . |
| 7 | But if you want to tackle the problem at the source then we must be on our way soon . ’ |
| 8 | And I ca n't help realising what a strain we must be on you . " |
| 9 | ‘ Two games against Barnsley have been tight this season and we must be on our guard . |
| 10 | ‘ The pendulum has swung back to us but we must be on our guard . |
| 11 | ‘ When they get that Chunnel going we 'll be on the mainline to Glasgow , right from Paris . |
| 12 | MacArthur 's waiting for word and then we 'll be on our way , do n't you fret yourself , Jim , son . ’ |
| 13 | Climbers with fewer scruples than those prepared to weight the issues , will place bolts on ‘ easier ’ climbs , and we 'll be on an escalator that 's hard to stop . |
| 14 | And I 'll tell you what we 'll be , we 'll be on the floor , and it hurts down there . |
| 15 | We 'll be on that boat up and down the River Tyne at the finish , that 's were we 'll end up I think . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll just go and tell Emmanuel to mind the shop and we 'll be on our way . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If we make one mistake , ’ Grace thought , ‘ the boat will break into fifty small pieces , and we 'll be on the rock with the others . ’ |
| 18 | If it goes well , we 'll be on your island by the end of next week . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll be on enough of a reach to pull off , even if the motor fails , ’ I said . |
| 20 | But tomorrow we 'll be on the the green . |
| 21 | But that is we we 're going to go We 'll on Wednesday officially we 'll be on the new green . |
| 22 | ‘ As soon as Ah 've talked wi ’ Iris Sunderby we 'll be on our way . ’ |
| 23 | In five weeks only we 'll be on our ‘ summer ’ holiday at Dornie — there will be trouble if it has n't cheered up by then . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's eight o'clock , and as soon as we 've had breakfast we 'll be on our way . ’ |
| 25 | Thus is it not resonable to suppose that when we come to play the likes of Liverpool , Arsenal , Norwich and Man Utd that once again these teams will once again expose our defencies and we 'll be on the loosing end of the scoreline . |
| 26 | Then then then er then we 'll be on a par . |
| 27 | and rowing for gold all this week will be the best oarsmen … young and old … from all over the world as the royal regatta takes off on the Thames at henley … we 'll be on the water tomorrow night to look ahead with the fastest school crew in the country |
| 28 | Maybe that , and any other lesser problems had now been sorted out and we might be on the verge of going home . |
| 29 | ‘ We might be on other planets . ’ |
| 30 | We could be on the last flight . ’ |