Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ AH , DOING an E H Carr , eh ? ’ , was the invariable response when , at the end of the 1960s , I told people what I was up to . |
| 2 | I kept away from him so the rest of the family would n't find out what I was up to . |
| 3 | I regularly asked Erica Brausen , the Hanover 's director , if she would visit my studio to see what I was up to but she never had time to take a taxi from Hanover Street to Highgate . |
| 4 | Carrying on and saying I was up to no good , out till that time . |
| 5 | By my second meeting , I was up to 20 words . |
| 6 | You might just remind your team that I would n't be working with IMP if they did n't think I was up to the job . |
| 7 | ‘ Listen , I was up to here with him ! ’ he said , vehemently . |
| 8 | She knew me well enough not to ask what I was up to in front of a policeman . |
| 9 | At that stage I was up to my sticky-out ears in Shetland 's music scene , and still harbouring a yearning to make a living from being a boring-but-sometimes-funny singer-songwriter . |
| 10 | ‘ Only officers need more than ten minutes for what I was up to . ’ |
| 11 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 12 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 13 | So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something . |
| 14 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 15 | I was about to be taken over . |
| 16 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 17 | Miranda faltered , ‘ I 'll just get changed to go out — I was about to . |
| 18 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 19 | ‘ Why I was bedding you if I was about to be married to someone else ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 20 | ‘ I was about to be found out , ’ Fabia inserted . |
| 21 | ‘ I was about to be even more demented , ’ Ven corrected . |
| 22 | Before I knew it I was out to sea . |
| 23 | If you want to know , it completed the whole exercise for me , the first time , while I was out to lunch . |
| 24 | Yes , I told the old man at the gate — a sure method of propagating the lie — I was off to Hydra for the week-end . |
| 25 | So , bathplug at the ready , I was off to Gudauri , Georgia , via Moscow and Tbilisi . |
| 26 | By now I was down to about 15″ . |
| 27 | One irate caller promised : ‘ If I was down to my last spoonful of petrol , with a hundred miles still to go , I 'd drive past an Elf station . ’ |
| 28 | There has been criticism of my buying but most were hired in a crisis when I was down to eight fit men . |
| 29 | ‘ I was down to just one spare player for the game against Ards and the knock to Strang was another bad blow , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I had to give up caddying when I left school to take up other jobs , but carrying the bags was in my blood and by the time I was twenty-four I was back to caddying full-time . |