Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 2 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 3 | The RSM brought everyone to attention , ‘ By the right , quick march , ’ barked the Officer and we were off to a jaunty 6–8 time , Blue Bonnets Over the Border , as I got under way . |
| 4 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 5 | Three grates and half a ton of jackdaw muck later , they were back to the colossal 17th-century hearth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 8 | With only two weeks to go they were down to the cosmetic touches . |
| 9 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 10 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 11 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |
| 12 | If it was up to the Labour Party it 'd be halved in two . |
| 13 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 14 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 15 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 16 | Mr Eggar , Michael Heseltine 's secretary , said it was up to the local management to press the case for the pit to stay open to the independent consultants reviewing the pit closures . |
| 17 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 18 | Now it was up to the Marine Commandoes . |
| 19 | It was back to the 2nd XI after that , but the memory will tingle for a while yet . |
| 20 | It was back to the same old theme . |
| 21 | After just half an hour in the pool , it was back to the troubled waters of the Foreign Office . |
| 22 | Yet it was down to a collective lack of desire , which was the problem against Watford . ’ |
| 23 | They managed to average 28 mph ; that 's some going , down the hill towards Welland they touched 60 , up the hill into Great Malvern it was down to a running pace . |
| 24 | She said well it was down to the last two she said , I had a choice between a red and green cushion or a fitness test . |
| 25 | Yes , after the morning paper it was down to the local market , er one hour with the butcher , a butcher , chappie named Welsh , two stall he had . |
| 26 | So it was off to a wet and windy Heathrow Airport , a BA Super Shuttle to Glasgow , and a twenty minute road journey to the factory . |
| 27 | So it was off to a wet and windy Heathrow Airport , a BA Super Shuttle to Glasgow , and a twenty minute road journey to the factory . |
| 28 | In the evening it was off to the Scottish Crofters Union Annual Dinner . |
| 29 | ( Gary was the only exception I knew to this rule , and then only when he was up to no good ) . ’ |
| 30 | Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface . |