Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy , who has 13 grandchildren and two great grandsons , added : ‘ I have already been down to my flat and have had a laugh with my friends . |
| 2 | If I had specially ordered the moment , it could n't have been more to my liking . |
| 3 | I find Lubin 's fingerwork in faster movements absolutely sparkling ; and the slightly more flowing tempi he adopts in the slower movements are more to my taste . |
| 4 | He had been up to my room that afternoon and asked my advice . |
| 5 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'm away to my lunch . |
| 7 | I 'm off to my bed now . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Floyd the private person wants to be up to my waist in water with a fishing rod , ’ he said . |
| 10 | At the moment I 'm up to my neck in the Camden Town murder . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've lost three pounds and I 'm back to my weight of all last season , 13 stone , although I will be even sharper if I come down another couple of pounds . |
| 12 | Such desires are easily understood and expressed as conscious wishes-'I 'd really like to be closer to my sister' . |
| 13 | Wonderful music , but in the theatre — well , I must say it is not to my taste . |
| 14 | ‘ With you , my lord , methinks being Joan de Warenne is more to my liking . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm going under — it 's up to my armpits — it 's up to my chin — my mouth is under — when my nostrils go under then I 'm done for … |
| 16 | ‘ That 's up to my wife , ’ Philip said firmly . |
| 17 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |
| 18 | remember going in and seeing this film and , it just it did n't it was so to my mind , and you know thinking back now , my memory of it was of a sort of very dark and dreary |
| 19 | after that we sort of passed it on to the one next you know what to expect , but if it was down to my mother she 'd never tell you . |
| 20 | But it was much to my man 's taste , I could see . ’ |
| 21 | The harbour at Victoria was more to my liking , for here were extensive areas of tidal sands , all dotted with busily feeding waders . |
| 22 | ‘ It was back to my bank for another £150 , ’ he said . |
| 23 | In another store one sales assistant stopped short of calling me stupid when I commented that a certain guitar was n't to my taste and a bit cheap-looking . |