Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you muste prove yourself to do som thynges that you were never taught , or else you shall not be able to doo any more than you were taught , and were rather to learne by rote than by reason . |
| 2 | By 1955 export prices were down to world levels , a development which must have accelerated the scrapping of old plant . |
| 3 | But many of his inventions were down to earth , as witness the Franklin stove which was a real energy saver , and provided comfort to the whole room , an early example of the ‘ Save It ’ campaign . |
| 4 | You know he used to see to a lot of our meals , and see that we were away to school and such-like . ’ |
| 5 | The young soldier and his girl were soon to part . |
| 6 | When he did encounter problems , remedies were easily to hand . |
| 7 | Bunny and he were off to Midnight Mass . |
| 8 | ‘ Time we were off to bed . ’ |
| 9 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 10 | This problem is only because you 're doing them retrospectively , if you were up to date you would n't have a problem at all would you ? |
| 11 | The boys , both lively and active , were up to mischief all day long . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd like to know what you were up to while I was away , ’ said Constance . |
| 13 | Travellers were up to half-an-hour late . |
| 14 | Plans were underway to re-engine the Shinden with the 1,984lb thrust Ne–130 turbojet . |
| 15 | A hundred and thirty one of those were people who were out to work or unoccupied . |
| 16 | They were out to dinner that night at Wally and Fiona Simpson 's on the Kennet . |
| 17 | His family were out to dinner alone together . |
| 18 | They were back to square one . |
| 19 | The crew were here to film ’ Shadowlands ’ the life of C.S Lewis , who 's remembered at one of Oxford 's best-known poets and children 's writers . |
| 20 | He held her close again , and as they were about to part she said , ‘ Charlie , ’ and he said , ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 21 | And they were about to trip over the first foot … |
| 22 | Said fifty when you were upstairs to daddy and she said how old 's your father and I said fifty two |
| 23 | Picking up the telephone , she was on to Dancer in a trice . |
| 24 | There 's a a motor been on here , it was on to ring the school bells . |
| 25 | For one thing he was down to half-pay and even more important , there were no little extras coming every week in brown envelopes . |
| 26 | They manned the barricades — did a good job , but survival was down to luck at times . |
| 27 | Completing the professional trio is the first lady professional in the district — 22-year old Sally Rippon from Stinchcombe Hill who started playing at 16 and within three years was down to handicap 4 . |
| 28 | I insisted in my foreword that spiritual warfare was down to earth and it is no less than modernity where the battle is now raging . |
| 29 | He liked Mrs Robson , he had become very fond of her : she was down to earth , and she seemed to bring him out of himself , but she seemed to be harbouring serious ideas about Maggie and him . |
| 30 | Big star who was down to earth |