Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About-to-be-ex-Lit-Ed , actually , come early January ( I 'm off to the Independent Magazine , which , although it 's the most literary colour supplement in town , does not and will not run book reviews ) ; but while there is a breath of bookish discernment left in my body , I suggest the following thoughts about the spring lists . |
| 2 | But then I started putting humbuckers in all my guitars and now I 'm back to the single coil thing , but just for playing in my hotel room . |
| 3 | Well , that 's good if it 's working well , it 's working well , but here , if you 're here , say for a late afternoon meeting or something , and you 're wondering what these screaming bells are , they 're the night bells , and you can pick them up by picking up your handset and pressing 8 and that is it , and you 're through to the outside world . |
| 4 | And then you 're back to the three sixty or nought again . |
| 5 | Sharon 's done hers , she 's done the green one , she 's on to the pink one |
| 6 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 7 | ‘ We have football on Sunday , Monday , Tuesday and by Wednesday we are round to the European games . |
| 8 | 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 ! ’ |
| 9 | We are back to the three act drama with which we began . |
| 10 | Yeah , that 's even better , but then we 're on to the forty foots so that 's even better . |
| 11 | We 're on to the next area now are n't we ? |
| 12 | Today we 're off to the charming isle of St Lucia where our winner and a friend will enjoy seven nights at the Le Sport Hotel , full board in a private air-conditioned room . |
| 13 | She treats us to her speciality sad gaze to camera , so we can see that rather society 's collapsing or her piles are hurting , and then we 're off to the next item . |
| 14 | We 're back to the normal agenda , item eight on page thirty-six . |
| 15 | Yes we 're back to the inner inner northern routes are n't we ? |
| 16 | And so we 're back to the old problem . ’ |
| 17 | We 're back to the whole problem |
| 18 | In rugby we 're down to the last eight … in the Pilkington Cup … which means Gloucester are two matches away from Twickenham … they 've got a game on their hands tomorrow though … away to first division leaders Orrell |
| 19 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 20 | And then they 're off to the next one . |
| 21 | Now they 're back to the good weather again . |
| 22 | Most of these liabilities er inevitably are n't necessarily for pensions payments they 're back to the active members , some of whom wo n't make any actual claim on this possibly for thirty years time , so there could well be a er a a scheme which is arrived at which is a pay as you go , which is n't any great liability o on , on any one pension scheme at any particular moment in time . |
| 23 | Three grates and half a ton of jackdaw muck later , they were back to the colossal 17th-century hearth . |
| 24 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 25 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 26 | With only two weeks to go they were down to the cosmetic touches . |
| 27 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 28 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 29 | But , as Jon Edgson says : ‘ All we can do is start the ball rolling , after that it 's up to the individual concerned . |
| 30 | A NatWest spokeswoman said : ‘ It 's up to the individual branch management . |