Example sentences of "we be [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To answer this question we are led back to the idea of big gassy planets like Jupiter spitting out small rocky ones like Venus , which then play a sort of cosmic billiards before settling down . |
| 2 | We 're moving to Shanghai with mixed feelings , as we 've heard we 'll be staying in the Peace Hotel , in the noisy centre of the city , but it 's nice to feel now that we are moving on to the home stretch . |
| 3 | De Klerk said his visit showed South Africa and the world that " we are moving back to the fold " . |
| 4 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 5 | I believe I told you that we are to move on to the Astors ? ’ |
| 6 | Here again , we are taken back to the very beginning of the town , to the years just after the Norman Conquest — for King 's Lynn is not really old by English standards . |
| 7 | ‘ We are going round to the stage door now , ’ she announced firmly . |
| 8 | I think we are coming up to the peaks now . ’ |
| 9 | And with that slice of humour , we are brought back to the present . |
| 10 | But if that is put on one side we are brought back to the question of what kinds of determining factors Poulantzas invokes in order to explain what actually happens . |
| 11 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 12 | Johnson , just debating , we 're getting on to the whole idea of Johnson 's world and the link though it worked out the same I 'd say . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're getting down to the real stuff — mosaics , some wall plaster , animal bones and there are signs of a hypocaust . ’ |
| 14 | We 're moving on to the next paper . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're moving back to the Front . |
| 16 | Now we 're going over to the tuck shop Go on Natalie sing something . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're going back to the wireless room . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're going back to the boat , ’ he said tersely . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've found us , we 're going back to the quarry , everything 's all right , ’ he said soothingly . |
| 20 | We 're going back to the woodblock flooring . |
| 21 | But see we 're going back to the old seasons now . |
| 22 | We 're going down to the village . |
| 23 | We 're going down to the beach to look for mussels . ’ |
| 24 | Well , we want to obviously make er people aware er both of their chest , I mean we 're coming in to the autumn , the winter period when er people who have er a residual chest problem will suffer far more , than say in the warmer , dryer and summer months . |
| 25 | Chairman can I just clarify that we we 're saying up to the erm what I 've said in speaking was that two point one million beyond that what is actually in the budget erm which is . |
| 26 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 27 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 28 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 29 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 30 | Just as we were coming up to the laundry , Kaptan broke free of the Corporal and ran down the side of the building . |