Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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1 | God knows what the two of them are up to together . ’ |
2 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
3 | ‘ And what d' you mean , what 'ave I been up to ? |
4 | ‘ If Major Calder and I are about to be deprived of your services , ’ Carew answered evenly , ‘ then we 'll have to use another and faster method of disrupting the IRB organisation . ’ |
5 | Jane and I are off to Italy — a photographic assignment — otherwise we would have held onto them a while longer . |
6 | ‘ I am here to — ‘ |
7 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
8 | Without the which I am not to be won , |
9 | ‘ It seems I am not to be Archdeacon of Woodborough . |
10 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
11 | Sir , I am not to be caught by a bait so poorly covered as this ! |
12 | I reach up and bolt the door , which I am not to , but can not control it for once . |
13 | I am not to be intimidated by house plants and silk ties , she thought . |
14 | I hope I am not to be cast absolutely into the outer darkness , Helen — I should find that very wretched . ’ |
15 | ‘ You are sure I am up to it ? ’ she remarked a little naughtily ; it would help if he underrated her — another of Papa 's precepts she had found worth following . |
16 | Now I am up to something like State 4 ( ‘ Raises dust and loose paper ’ ) , according to the only reference to the original scale that I can find in Registry , or perhaps 5 ( ‘ Small trees in leaf begin to sway ’ ) it seems to me that States 4 and 5 is where I mostly am . |
17 | And incidentally , ’ added the canny Scot , ‘ I am now to be known as Princess Deborah Barbecue . |
18 | ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said . |
19 | Every time I go to Cambridge I come back depressed as hell ; then as soon as I am back to a Norfolk class spirits soar again . |
20 | Now I am back to normal . |
21 | As one teacher said , ‘ I am still to be convinced whether the energy and time required to do effective evaluation would balance the increased efficiency in teaching which might follow . ’ |
22 | His moustache be so fine , I am nigh to a swound ! |
23 | After the meeting of the Cabinet held that same Sunday evening , when it became apparent that agreement could not be reached on the economy package , MacDonald , on his way to the palace , told Sir Ernest Harvey , the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand . ' |
24 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she said , ‘ I am off to the pub . |
25 | Had he not left them the night before , exclaiming : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand ’ ? |
26 | And a little nervous that I am about to be ticked off for my unorthodox and amiable occupation of the Rosenbloom . |
27 | My heart , or what passes for one in demonic physiology , is in my mouth , for fear that I am about to be exiled from Rainbow Rosenbloom , and from Chinese food , movies and other earthly delights , for evermore . |
28 | I 'm through to the final , and now I must make absolutely certain I 'm in the right frame of mind . |
29 | ‘ Well , I 'm away to my lunch . |
30 | I 'm away to the dentist myself . ’ |