Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bunny and he were off to Midnight Mass . |
| 2 | When , in the last play of the Henry VI trilogy , the future Richard III is presenting to the audience his capabilities — as if auditioning for the role of hypocrite — he exults at being able to By grouping all those exempla of deceit Shakespeare makes us unconscious of the initial role-playing of the actor involved , alerting us to the deceptions he is about to foist on others . |
| 3 | Also shown is the latest in a continuing project ( shown at last year 's Documenta ) which consists of the making of blank , all-over wash drawings in the precise measurements of all of Edouard Manet 's documented paintings ( he 's up to No. 160 out of a total of 556 ) . |
| 4 | Yes he 's away to work , yeah . |
| 5 | He was not to waster them . |
| 6 | A few days later , he was off to south London , where he concentrated on the subject of deserts — his speciality . |
| 7 | ‘ Dr Jones asked me to tell you he was off to tea . |
| 8 | He had achieved total surprise and there was complete silence until the first Bofors opened up when he was out to sea and on his way back to the mainland . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why me Lord ? ’ is asking God if he was out to lunch when this painful incident occurred . |
| 10 | I rang Sorrel 's flat from Sergeant Purvis 's desk , and as he was out to lunch I sat on it and rearranged his pencils in a petty and thoroughly satisfying bit of vandalism . |
| 11 | She sat impatiently listening to the teacher 's drivel about the fault in the program he was about to network . |
| 12 | It was deliberately provocative because she was disappointed that he was back to antagonism after yesterday , and he shot a startled glance at her before giving a low , dark laugh . |
| 13 | Rejected at that level , he was back to square one , at a disadvantage . |
| 14 | For one thing he was down to half-pay and even more important , there were no little extras coming every week in brown envelopes . |