Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I 've been on to world wom women 's committee and they assure me that they , the hospital says these tests should come through in a week , at the most three week 's , but you can phone them , so that certainly has improved , there does n't seem to be a back log . |
| 2 | Recently , however , they have been down to Lord Mayor Treloar College where they are helping to buy TNS 's , a battery powered device which produces small low powered electric shock — something like pins and needles — designed to ease muscle pain for people with disabilities such as spina bifida and muscular dystrophy . |
| 3 | They 'll of course attempt to claim that any future cuts in schools ' budgets are down to lack of government funding . |
| 4 | Stranraer are away to East Stirling tomorrow , with Meadowbank playing Stenhousemuir and Alloa facing Queen 's Park . |
| 5 | Stranraer are away to East Stirling tomorrow , with Meadowbank playing Stenhousemuir and Alloa facing Queen 's Park . |
| 6 | G. E. Policemen in those days , particularly like me who had been away to sea , were a bit rough . |
| 7 | Notes that you can consult are of great value , but much of the fundamental interpretation of your subjects must be based on an effective memory when notes are not to hand . |
| 8 | If materials are not to hand when they are needed , progress suffers and costs to the constructor increase . |
| 9 | But sometimes politicians have to be seen to respond to public concerns , if they are not to hand ammunition to their opponents . |
| 10 | Right then , we 're on to stress . |
| 11 | We 're on to tape two now ? |
| 12 | Yeah we 're on to tape two cos this A side of tape two . |
| 13 | So now you 're on to phase two . |
| 14 | After that we 're down to emergency lighting , just the aisle lights and not much else for about four hours , then we 're in the dark . ’ |
| 15 | If we eliminate the name of the place as being the first word , we 're down to Centenary or Bramley then . |
| 16 | ‘ If you 're away to glory in some sort of wilderness I suppose I have n't much option — but I must say that this is mighty strange — ’ |
| 17 | We 're off to South America now to join up again with the Camel Trophy … an international expedition through Brazil and Guyana … |
| 18 | We 're off to South America now to join up again with the Camel Trophy … an international expedition through Brazil and Guyana … |
| 19 | ‘ Cheap , ’ Rose replied , quoting the pusher , ‘ the price of a few gallons of petrol and you 're off to paradise . ’ |
| 20 | Lassa Java and Ringa Hustle … tomorrow night they 're off to wimbledon the track not the tennis courts for the Greyhound Derby … it 's the biggest race of the year … there 's 40,000 pounds for the winner … millions will be bet … it 's the grand national of the greyhound world … |
| 21 | They 're off to football are n't they ? |
| 22 | ‘ If they 're up to standard and I like them , I 'll use them — simple as that . ’ |
| 23 | So then you 're up to date , but three in the afternoon you 've got the C B S evening news , 'cos they 're also three hours earlier . |
| 24 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 25 | ‘ So , ’ said the chairman , ‘ we 're back to square one . ’ |
| 26 | We 're back to square one , ’ said a senior official at Jordan 's Foreign Ministry . |
| 27 | As soon as you 've battered your opponent into near-submission , a power-up appears ( which the computer-controlled player appears to anticipate ) and you 're back to square one ! |
| 28 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |
| 29 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 30 | You 're back to work . |