Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Gary was the only exception I knew to this rule , and then only when he was up to no good ) . ’ |
| 2 | Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface . |
| 3 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 4 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 5 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 6 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 7 | Now he was off to a nine p.m. to one a.m . |
| 8 | Each evening he was off to the local pub The Royal Oak where he apparently became the life and soul of the party . |
| 9 | MIKE ATHERTON 's hope of retaining his England Test place took a blow today , when he was out to a careless stroke in front of Graham Gooch . |
| 10 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 11 | By the time he was 22 he was down to a 9 handicap and was off 2 when he turned professional at the start of last year . |