Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Self-contained was the phrase that occurred to him ; everything was there to hand .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Would Tim have persuaded Jan to throw away her book at last and learn there was more to life than work ?
8 Surely there was more to life than that ?
9 ‘ She obviously decided there was more to life than a ship 's doctor had to offer . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 After deciding that oak would be best for the job , it was then to work , carefully measuring the arch and getting it all drawn up to scale .
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