Example sentences of "[verb] i be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might just remind your team that I would n't be working with IMP if they did n't think I was up to the job . |
| 2 | From what I learned at the meeting I ca n't see why he thinks I 'm up to such a task , but maybe la bête a ses raisons que la belle ne connaît pas . |
| 3 | ‘ My angels say I 'm not to . ’ |
| 4 | I no more say who I am in this case than I say I 'm off to my wife 's right in the lost-in-cloud case . |
| 5 | He says I 'm not to . . |
| 6 | I hope I am not to be cast absolutely into the outer darkness , Helen — I should find that very wretched . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I told you that one of the men on the train kept saying that Farrell needed information from me , that Farrell had said I was n't to be killed . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , for the first , as far as I 'm concerned they do n't go without the second , and for the second , I do n't believe I 'm about to be asked . ’ |
| 9 | I 've got I 'm on to tape four . |
| 10 | As the front-man , ever in vision , I accept I 'm there to be shot at . |
| 11 | I know I 'm back to four little pieces ! |
| 12 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 13 | Carrying on and saying I was up to no good , out till that time . |
| 14 | For example , the written sentence My next destination is Finland and in particular Kuusamo , which is a town close to the Soviet border might be spoken I 'm off to Finland next . |
| 15 | ‘ It seems I am not to be Archdeacon of Woodborough . |
| 16 | Find I 'm down to using it twice a week now . |
| 17 | ‘ Be a darling , ’ he went on , ‘ do n't mention I 'm here to anybody . |
| 18 | I thought I was just to be shut in the cellar , as usual , the light turned off , as usual , the better to think out my wickedness , the better to pray for forgiveness . |
| 19 | ‘ And what d' you mean , what 'ave I been up to ? |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | She said I 'm off to Dublin . |
| 22 | ‘ Did I not say I was not to be disturbed ? ’ |
| 23 | Him at the Post Office knows I 'm up to something . |