Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I may be on to something . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Listen , Jacqui , I think I may be on to something about the way Steen 's behaving . ’ |
| 3 | If it does I 'll be on to you straight on the phone . |
| 4 | So I put them two and a half up to press with this one and then I can turn it over and I 'll be on to third side . |
| 5 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |
| 6 | So I 'll be back to you . |
| 7 | But I 'll be off to Stamford in the morning to have a scent round . |
| 8 | ‘ They can do what they like for me — blow the place up for all I care — I 'll be off to my mobile home in Lytham St Annes before long . ’ |
| 9 | That 's right Jane , I 'll be off to Culham Road shortly to cover the match between Abingdon Town and Brackley , Bracknell ; they 're playing in the Vauxhall League Division two south and some team news for Town — does n't read very well , I 'm afraid , mid fielders Kevin Connelly and Keith Appleton , they 've both been ruled out . |
| 10 | And the next thing I could be on to drugs , you know er , putting heroin in me arm , I could be doing anything . |
| 11 | On the morrow I would be off to Donegal . |
| 12 | I , I completely disagree with your thoughts on the fact that there wo n't be a smell , so much so that the slightest smell if the , if the er proposal gets the go ahead and I shall be on to your office and asking to speak to you personally , to come and smell this erm |
| 13 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 14 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 15 | If it seems appropriate for you to sell , I promise you I will be back to you immediately . |
| 16 | But the basic uncertainty in the mother may well transmit itself to the child and the relationship between the two of them could be off to a shaky start . |
| 17 | ‘ Boys at the department think you may be on to something . |
| 18 | The fact that Harry Martin had seen fit to go this far not only alarmed her but also made her realise that she must be on to something . |
| 19 | She should be up to date with her vaccinations , and should be swabbed before going to the stud — vet 's visit plus consultation and advice , the swab , postage , lab fees — see how it adds up ? |
| 20 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 21 | right erm could I just check something else which was not mentioned er is that is it when you have opened these two Homeworks shops that you 'll be up to a hundred and seventy eight |
| 22 | you 'll be back to your usual . |
| 23 | After correcting , press |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose you 'll be off to Colonel Murchison 's this afternoon with this weather and all ? ’ he said , with tongue in cheek . |
| 25 | But both were kissed beside the black car then the green , and Karen felt a stirring of regret that she 'd be off to Aunt Jane 's and the lonely wind-blown beaches . |
| 26 | You 'd take a lovely walk down the field and then suddenly you 'd be up to your knees in a bog . |
| 27 | Well they were usually a line of kids standing along the wall or something and one set out in the middle of the field and then you had to touch them and then you 'd be back to the wall and they had to do it . |
| 28 | MIX and Max with Mel and you could be on to a video winner as we give away more than £2,500worth of Gibson tapes . |
| 29 | Iris , you could be on to something ! ’ |
| 30 | In the morning she would be back to her normal self . |