Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had not been much to Clive . |
| 2 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 3 | Other friendlies see Ards host Portadown while Armagh , who have former Ireland winger Kenny Hooks playing in the centre this season , face Lisburn and North are away to Ballynahinch . |
| 4 | In League division 2 , Oxford United are away to Plymouth Argyll , the manager Brian Horton may spring a surprise and include John Durning who is fit again . |
| 5 | Swindon are away to Bristol Rovers in the league on Wednesday … the last word on football is about United midfielder Jim Magilton who was injured in a road accident in Oxford on saturday night … he 's out of hospital … and should be playing next week |
| 6 | Oxford University are away to Harborne … |
| 7 | Gloucester are away to Newcastle Gosforth … another big battle for the Cherry and Whites |
| 8 | On-form Formby travel to Castleton , while Bootle are away to Ashton Town . |
| 9 | Group B is tight with Crusaders and Distillery level on four points each at the top ; Crues are away to Coleraine while the Whites visit Omagh knowing defeat will let in the Tyrone men . |
| 10 | Middlesbrough are away to Birkenhead on Saturday in the ASA 's Plate competition for teams knocked out of the national club senior championship . |
| 11 | Blackburn are away to Portsmouth who are both above Leicester , Southend , Southend , Southend should beat Bristol City Camb Cambridge Middlesbrough have got Millwall at ho away , well yeah do n't know oh Sunderland did well |
| 12 | Stranraer are away to East Stirling tomorrow , with Meadowbank playing Stenhousemuir and Alloa facing Queen 's Park . |
| 13 | Stranraer are away to East Stirling tomorrow , with Meadowbank playing Stenhousemuir and Alloa facing Queen 's Park . |
| 14 | It looks as if the relegation issue in Division I wo n't be decided until Saturday week when Glasgow High-Kelvinside are away to Currie and Stirling County meet Boroughmuir at Bridgehaugh . |
| 15 | G. E. Policemen in those days , particularly like me who had been away to sea , were a bit rough . |
| 16 | They 're away to Everton on Saturday … another group of no-hopers with something to prove ? |
| 17 | Tomorrow , they 're away to St. Albans . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 19 | You 're here to work , so get moving . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought the idea was that we 're here to work , not to enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 21 | Charlotte had a more or less regular trade with Bordeaux , but had been once to Lisbon , and twice to Las Palmas . |
| 22 | ‘ There ca n't be much to farm around Caldbeck , can there ? |
| 23 | One of the mistakes we make is to imagine that if something is harmless or beneficial to us it must automatically be so to cats . |
| 24 | Yeah well I , I think er of more value would be just to people here present going away , and between now and the seminar on the eighth or ninth is actually trying to get the negatives . |
| 25 | They 've won their way through to the first round of the FA Cup where they 'll be away to West Bromwich Albion . |
| 26 | It pricked his curiosity but he shook his head , saying , ‘ Ah — I have to be away to Dublin . ’ |
| 27 | And my my aunt that I my grandmother that I stayed with , their neighbour down the stair was quite indignant and saying , I 'm away to work and she 's getting twelve shillings the same . |
| 28 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 29 | " I 'm away to London tonight and then to France . " |
| 30 | In post-industrial Britain both the self-satisfied and the desperate are able to feel justified in clinging on to what they have , or grabbing what they have n't ; at no time — even in the middle of the Live Aid telethon — is there a suggestion that there might be more to life than such behaviour . |