Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
| 2 | I am about to retire to the breakfast parlour with Mr Beckenham and Miss Merchiston . |
| 3 | The figures that I am about to present to the House will embarrass the Leader of the House , but I shall get them on the record none the less . |
| 4 | Reggane was on the route from Oran , and we were about to transfer to the route from Algiers , along a one hundred and eighty mile dog-leg . |
| 5 | Together with the first harvest sheaf hanging beside the icon for its protective magic , these are reminders that our peasant lives in several cultural times simultaneously , one of them embedded deep in the pagan past , another in the religious present , a third focused on the trip she is about to take to the town of Roslavl' . |
| 6 | I was about to refer to the order dealing with access . |
| 7 | Many of the Moslem kings now came forward with tributes and it seemed , briefly , that most of Moorish Spain was about to fall to the Christians . |
| 8 | For at seven o'clock in the morning of 20 August in that year , the inscription has it , just as the citadel was about to fall to the besiegers , a white cross was seen in the sky ‘ above and to the right of the town ’ , which then became a crucifix whose crown turned encouragingly ( for the French ) into a royal fleur-de-lis . |
| 9 | Quite often , the dream was interpreted as an allegory for what was about to happen to the dreamer . |
| 10 | After all , there was no need for Doreen to learn of what was about to happen to the house . |
| 11 | Julia was about to descend to the kitchen when the bell pealed again . |
| 12 | Malcolm was about to go to the States . |
| 13 | If a person were to announce to a policeman that he was about to go to the house of his sworn enemy and beat the living daylights out of him , it would not make sense if the law were that the policeman had to follow the suspect to the locus in quo and only then arrest him . |
| 14 | ‘ What height is this table ? ’ he said suddenly , just as I was about to go to the breadbin for a slice to wipe my plate with . |
| 15 | Last time I was on the list I was about to go to the Norwich and Liverpool games — well at least I saw plenty of goals ! ! |
| 16 | He was about to cross to the wardrobe , when his eye caught a slight movement of the heavy floor-length curtains over to his right . |
| 17 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |