Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to know , it completed the whole exercise for me , the first time , while I was out to lunch . |
| 2 | Before I knew it I was out to sea . |
| 3 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 4 | A hundred and thirty one of those were people who were out to work or unoccupied . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd like to know what you were up to while I was away , ’ said Constance . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Said fifty when you were upstairs to daddy and she said how old 's your father and I said fifty two |
| 8 | Now , at the time we had my grandmother living with us , so we had to tell her shut up , erm , and when they rang , er on the door , she , she was n't to sort of , call out and you know , to tell us that the door was ringing , |
| 9 | She was here to work , to wend her way among the clusters of people gathered around the groaning buffet tables , to smile like a wax mannequin and to stop when requested , to pirouette and offer the same answer to each question about her gown whether it dealt with size , colour , fabric , price or availability . |
| 10 | Picking up the telephone , she was on to Dancer in a trice . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Leith was about to state , quite forcefully , that she was there to work , not to flirt with every male who chanced his arm , when suddenly she realised that if he knew she had worked for Vasey 's for only a short while then there was a fair chance either someone from Personnel , or Mr Catham , had given him a brief run-down on each employee before he met them . |
| 13 | She was back to square one . |
| 14 | Now she was back to being second in command . |
| 15 | Now she was back to reality . |
| 16 | It was as if he 'd known — as if he 'd somehow been alerted to the fact that she was about to cave in , to spill the beans on their bogus relationship . |
| 17 | Approaching the door he said to [ name of another neighbourhood policeman ] , who was about to knack , |
| 18 | Big star who was down to earth |
| 19 | You know he used to see to a lot of our meals , and see that we were away to school and such-like . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Time we were off to bed . ’ |
| 21 | Self-contained was the phrase that occurred to him ; everything was there to hand . |
| 22 | But suddenly , like catching a whiff of the sea when you 're still miles up the river , I had a feeling there was more to life than this . |
| 23 | If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television . |
| 24 | Would Tim have persuaded Jan to throw away her book at last and learn there was more to life than work ? |
| 25 | Surely there was more to life than that ? |
| 26 | ‘ She obviously decided there was more to life than a ship 's doctor had to offer . ’ |
| 27 | Wells Store started from humble beginings in the early nineteen fifties and helped persuade the public that there was more to life than English cheddar . |
| 28 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 29 | They were out to dinner that night at Wally and Fiona Simpson 's on the Kennet . |
| 30 | And they were about to trip over the first foot … |