Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | And my my aunt that I my grandmother that I stayed with , their neighbour down the stair was quite indignant and saying , I 'm away to work and she 's getting twelve shillings the same . |
| 3 | I 'm here to second this composite , number sixteen , as regards public ownership of utilities . |
| 4 | Labour 's shadow chancellor John Smith unveils their alternative budget promising everyone earning up to £22,000 a year they would be better Dr Ashok Kumar launched his campaign to retain Langabrugh pledging ‘ I 'm here to Opinion polls show the Tories with a three point Labour say they would scrap the City Technology Colleges if they won power . |
| 5 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 6 | You are here to work , Shelley Cameron , she told herself . |
| 7 | Henry Cobham , Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Popham , who had ordered the report , further informed the two men " … it seemeth by some purport made unto us , that eight Kibles of God 's gift and Conistone Oares should make a quintall of Copper , and in matter of experiment in the worke , it appeareth that tenn Kibles or more doe but make a quintall of Copper , you are therefore to informe your Selves the best you can how many Kibles of the Oare now gotten at Gods gift , and Coniston will yield a Quintall of Copper , what the particular charges will amount unto , of making the said Quintall . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 're away to glory in some sort of wilderness I suppose I have n't much option — but I must say that this is mighty strange — ’ |
| 9 | You 're here to work , so get moving . |
| 10 | Said fifty when you were upstairs to daddy and she said how old 's your father and I said fifty two |
| 11 | I do n't know if there 's anything on tomorrow Maybe we ought to go this evening if she 's there to work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought the idea was that we 're here to work , not to enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 15 | You know he used to see to a lot of our meals , and see that we were away to school and such-like . ’ |
| 16 | To read We is constantly to hive to rethink the issue . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll give you a quick bath and then it 's straight to bed . ’ |
| 18 | She 'll be round on Friday afternoon or Saturday some time I said we 'd be here from four o'clock on Friday so I 'll take it down to John 's today then it 's away to work I 've got the rubbish in the bins right ? |
| 19 | After a quick breakfast it 's across to HQ to read the sitreps ( situation reports ) . |
| 20 | It is however to oil production that India is looking . |
| 21 | It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young . |
| 22 | Yes he 's away to work , yeah . |
| 23 | 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 . |