Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv prt] to the " 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 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 3 | Now it seemed he did n't believe she was up to the task . |
| 4 | Rain fought back the impulse to grab her bag and check the contents , and then she was through to the Post . |
| 5 | After her fifth or sixth toke she was down to the end of the joint and a couple of the dried seeds exploded like miniature fireworks , making her jump and then starting her off giggling . |
| 6 | Magdalen , which had been Oscar Wilde 's college , always attracted a fair number of rarefied and aesthetic young men , and it was on to the path of this tradition that one of Lewis 's first pupils , John Betjeman , happily placed his bedroom-slippered toe . |
| 7 | If these did n't work it was on to the funerals — huge fantasy ones . |
| 8 | Another Methuselah of Lutomer Riesling later , it was on to the Safeway own-brand cod fish fingers served on a bed of baked beans , accompanied by large dishes of McCain 's oven chips and Findus frozen peas , with a choice of HP sauce or plain ketchup . |
| 9 | After that it was on to the theatre for the evening show , then back to the Theatre Girls ' Club for , if they are to be believed , another meal of egg and chips . |
| 10 | Then it was on to the Salvation Army old people 's home where one resident remarked : ‘ How beautiful you are . |
| 11 | Then it was on to the chapel , where work from other faculties and departments was on show . |
| 12 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 13 | He said the party told Romania last month it was up to the Poles to choose their future through free elections . |
| 14 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 15 | The inquiry is limited to events after 1986 , but Mr Patten appeared to be saying that it was up to the head of the inquiry , under the oversight of the Police Complaints Authority , to decide whether to extend it . |
| 16 | They insisted that the massacre was China 's internal affair , that China had done nothing to harm the United States ' interests , and that it was up to the US to take the initiative in repairing relations . |
| 17 | It was up to the politicians to define the ends : an end to urban poverty , victory in Vietnam . |
| 18 | Laws used to specify offences such as loitering with intent or malicious wounding , so that it was up to the prosecutor to prove the evil character of an act that might be more or less culpable . |
| 19 | Whilst paying lip service to the concepts , the CEGB remained unconvinced that it should bother seriously with either conservation or the renewable sources of energy , especially if it meant abandoning Hinkley C. It was up to the government to decide whether to provide incentives for energy efficiency , whilst the renewables must wait until pilot projects showed their worth . |
| 20 | Bunting ( 1978 ) in more general terms disclaims this responsibility and states that with the introduction of high-yielding paddy it was to be expected there were social problems but it was up to the politicians to ‘ do something about it ’ . |
| 21 | Mr. Croucher replied that under the present law it was up to the applicant to notify other people of their intention in writing . |
| 22 | Mrs. Bethell said it was up to the youth committee to decide what they wanted . |
| 23 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 24 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 25 | ‘ Vaughan himself , a gentleman of highest principles , warned me of his intentions , saying it was up to the king to decide what , if any , action should be taken . |
| 26 | John Fahey , PRO , said his role as ‘ spokesman ’ was over now that an independent medical expert had examined the situation but it was up to the people of Ovens and Ballincollig to decide whether the assurances resolved their worries . |
| 27 | If China was ‘ backward ’ , it was its own fault and it was up to the people , led by the intellectuals , to do something about it . |
| 28 | Toni thought it was up to the individual : ‘ Madonna and Debbie Harry fulfil your iconic dreams , a possible ideal . |
| 29 | Moreover the whole point of the form of the public corporation favoured by moderate opinion in all parties ( and represented in the Labour Party by the Morrisonian conception ) was that it was up to the management ( and not the politicians or civil servants ) to develop the details of policy and organisation within only very broad guidelines . |
| 30 | Scotland was kilt-deep in it ; it was up to the lorry-axles on Shap , up to the bus-steps in London . |