Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 2 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 3 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 4 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 5 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 6 | The once-scarlet , once-thick carpet in the foyer had been trodden down to a greasy thinness the exact shade of hard , encrusted blood . |
| 7 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
| 8 | Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers . |
| 9 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 10 | On Friday George Tinsley and John Warnock , of The North Yorkshire Brewing Company , are jetting off to a trade fair in Tokyo to promote the pride and joy of Teesside 's real ale enthusiasts . |
| 11 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
| 12 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 13 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 14 | Contrary to speculation , the house has not been lent out to a public exhibition since 1925 , but remains where it was designed to stand , the only completely untouched Lutyens house in existence , a permanent record of a way of life between the wars . |
| 15 | He wrote immediately to the SMG , cutting off all contact : ‘ I am not interested in agencies who politic and posture for no other reason than to promote themselves … secondly , as I am not presently able to place any trust in you , I must insist that any further matters you wish to raise are channelled through to a suitable agency , viz the local council or HCRC . ’ |
| 16 | A NATIONAL treasure has been tracked down to a German museum after it was allegedly stolen by a man using a metal detector . |
| 17 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 18 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 19 | We 're going back to a kind of rating system with the different assessment on valuations |
| 20 | Underarm deodorant to make us smell nice when we 're going out to a party ? |
| 21 | Yes she said we 're going out to a dinner party tonight , I thought golly |
| 22 | What , like you 're going out to a pool |
| 23 | Michael Gannon is a former bookie who knows about odds and they 're adding up to a housing market where the buyer is king . |
| 24 | The large proportion of the impressions made to what they see , how they visualize you , so if you look a mess you 're backing on the wrong foot , you give , you 're getting off to a bad start straight away and be aware of hidden signals that you 'll give your emanating . |
| 25 | IF you 're tied in to a high mortgage rate it might be worth your while doing the switch . |
| 26 | We 're coming up to a bank holiday , and most people will be going away . |
| 27 | Hold my hand nicely sweetheart , there 's a good girl we 're coming up to a busy road in a minute and it 's dangerous Walk nicely darling , there 's a good girl walk nicely just stand still a minute sweetheart hold my hand Charlotte please hold my hand there 's a good girl . |
| 28 | Mm yes but we 're coming up to a time when er the quantity of old people is going to be rather high than before because we 're all healthier . |
| 29 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 30 | The morning 's cream is quietly clotting on the stove , the gleaming copper pans are being put to use and the farmworkers are filing in to a meal which is pure poetry ; vegetables plucked from the soil within the hour , fresh baked bread , farm butter , eggs , game and fruit . |