Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without the which I am not to be won , |
| 2 | I reach up and bolt the door , which I am not to , but can not control it for once . |
| 3 | It was not until 1921 that the TVLR ( Transfer ) Order was put into effect so that it was now absorbed by the Cambrian Railway , which itself was soon to be absorbed by the GWR in January 1923 . |
| 4 | The Master Level Index is the main entry point to the entire system , below which there are up to three levels of functional refinement . |
| 5 | The same case could , of course , have been made about listeners ' attitudes to the number and length of speeches to which they were now to be subjected . |
| 6 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 7 | The gates of the prison had been flung open , after which it was up to everyone to save themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ My people think you were taken away from New Orleans under threat and that you 're now stringing along just to see what I 'm up to . |
| 9 | If I ask questions they 'll wonder what I 'm up to but you can wheedle information out of them in general conversation . ’ |
| 10 | " Trouble is , " Slater mused , " he either does n't realise what I 'm up to , or he does n't care . |
| 11 | You do n't care what I 'm up to ; your only concern is for Maria Luisa 's feelings . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ AH , DOING an E H Carr , eh ? ’ , was the invariable response when , at the end of the 1960s , I told people what I was up to . |
| 13 | I kept away from him so the rest of the family would n't find out what I was up to . |
| 14 | I regularly asked Erica Brausen , the Hanover 's director , if she would visit my studio to see what I was up to but she never had time to take a taxi from Hanover Street to Highgate . |
| 15 | She knew me well enough not to ask what I was up to in front of a policeman . |
| 16 | ‘ Only officers need more than ten minutes for what I was up to . ’ |
| 17 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 18 | I mean , he thought , I know what she 's up to , all right . |
| 19 | I 'll go and see what she 's up to , she told Victorine : do n't worry , I 'll find her . |
| 20 | I mean , why did n't she tell me the truth , I can understand you know , I could , you know , I could perha if she 'd just tell me the truth you know tell me why she 's u , what she 's up to and that . |
| 21 | Even a good-natured man might wonder just what she was up to , and Mr. Channing is not a good-natured man . ’ |
| 22 | There was no particular reason why he should not know what she was up to , but she instinctively felt an urge to keep it quiet for the moment . |
| 23 | Rosie jumped and people who had taken no interest in Ruby since she had sat down made excuses to walk by the diary desk and see what she was up to . |
| 24 | It was time she surfaced and told him what she was up to . |
| 25 | That evening , she rang Bridget at home , and explained what she was up to . |
| 26 | ‘ Zam , what you been up to ? ’ |
| 27 | And the girls used to say , these bri these lads are here again , and er , well he sent us out and when we 'd come back we 'd pass this sergeant and at , he 'd , he 'd talk to u where you been , what you been up to ? |
| 28 | You looked absolutely fucked Stu , what you been up to ? |
| 29 | Being open and honest about what you are thinking , how you are feeling and why you are doing whatever you are doing is deemed to be efficient and helpful because otherwise people waste precious time and energy trying to ‘ second guess ’ what you are up to . |
| 30 | No military man is going to risk trouble on campus by complaining — and he probably wo n't understand what you are up to anyway . |