Example sentences of "we be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How … how long have we been on the move ? ’ she asked . |
| 2 | Have we been on a high speed ? |
| 3 | We are on a shore of white sand too hot to stand still for a moment , great breakers surf and trip to swathes of foam as we dart into the solid black and lovely shade . |
| 4 | We are on familiar ground , since this idealism is none other than his deeper — sometimes he called it deepest , sometimes highest — realism ; but with new implications in that he is beginning to show a sensitiveness to the actual which no doubt existed before but was rarely evident , a sensitiveness which is now coming out like a bruise . |
| 5 | ‘ We are on the side of the angels . ’ |
| 6 | Just as we are on the way out of the desert , it would be plain daft to turn back because someone thinks they have seen a hazy mirage on the horizon . ’ |
| 7 | We are on the move again , advancing along the winding country road with high hedges on either side . |
| 8 | They are moving at good speed — we are on one of Odd-Knut 's prepared training runs — perhaps topping 30kph on the level sections . |
| 9 | We are just under one inch taller on getting up in the morning than we are on going to bed at night . |
| 10 | This is all splendid and we are on Lewis 's side . |
| 11 | ‘ I am just so relieved we are on the verge of getting a much more sensible system of payment to them after all this time . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Eastern Europe can cope with two to three bad years ; we are on the edge of starvation , ’ says Do Duc Dinh , a Hanoi economist . |
| 13 | This book is particularly clever , for although we know the outcome ( de Gaulle was not assassinated ) , we are on the edge of our seats until the very last page . |
| 14 | He ended his hour-long presentation with the words , ‘ We are on our way toward making the division one of the best goddamned outfits in overseas operations , and I just want to be given the chance to prove that the plan which I have outlined to you today is the right one for the British operation , for Europe and for the Corporation . ’ |
| 15 | Politically we are on a hiding to nothing in the long run and so I guess the only satisfactory way forward would be to leave badgers completely alone and compensate farmers in full for badger-related losses , including consequential losses . ’ |
| 16 | Somebody ought to stand up and acknowledge what we have done because we are on the side of the angels . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I suspect we are on the way to recovery and coming out of recession . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ We are on the march and heading for a place in the German parliament . |
| 19 | We are on the threshold of a great breakthrough reflected in society 's incredible support . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Heseltine , by now carried away with his role , replied : ‘ I tell you , we are on our way , boyo . |
| 21 | Here we are on dangerous ground , though . |
| 22 | Austin Currie condemned the police action in blocking their route , and said that NICRA would be organising more parades , which would not stop at Thomas Street : ‘ O'Neill and those Orange bigots behind him [ will ] realise once and for all that we are on our way forward . |
| 23 | We are on a train , I thought . |
| 24 | The presence and influence of other persons in our life make us more than we are on our own . |
| 25 | For the high and mighty only appear so because we are on our knees . |
| 26 | It is with effectiveness that we are on much more fertile ground , for effectiveness is concerned with the relationship between output and aims and objectives . |
| 27 | While we are on the subject of money , it is interesting to note that Freud 's fee for an hour of his time was nearly four times the fee for a day in ‘ a first rate sanatorium ’ . |
| 28 | One could answer this by suggesting that here we are on the borderline between social and physiological laws . |
| 29 | Indeed , we are on our way to the Astors . ’ |
| 30 | Jason says : ‘ We all try to keep in touch with our old mates as much as possible , but obviously it 's difficult because we are on the road so much . |