Example sentences of "was [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a short while he was on to the subject of Libya 's exports . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then it was on to the chapel , where work from other faculties and departments was on show . |
| 6 | Then it was on to the Salvation Army old people 's home where one resident remarked : ‘ How beautiful you are . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The position of the casualty was still uncertain , but she had reported that she was somewhere to the west of Burtonport so the lifeboat set course to the NW at full speed , adjusting as necessary for the large swell , and calling the casualty on the VHF radio . |
| 9 | She hung up on me , This was all to the good . |
| 10 | True , it was astonishingly heavy when one came to lift it , but — as the philosophical cook observed — that was all to the good , as one slice would be enough ! |
| 11 | João had been out with Fernando for most of the previous night and looked pale and tired , but Maria Iñes said this was all to the good , because it made him look older and readier to take on the responsibility of a wife . |
| 12 | Well , perhaps that was all to the good . |
| 13 | Even the photograph , she had to admit , was a good one : Hilda would never look attractive , Viola thought to herself , but at least she looked dignified , which was all to the good . |
| 14 | But that was all to the good . |
| 15 | Still , if he wanted to formally emphasise the gulf between them , it was all to the good . |
| 16 | Well , it was all to the good ; after he 'd finished skiing for the day they 'd return to the cottage , and she 'd set out for home . |
| 17 | It looked like somebody 's curtains cut up — which was what it probably was — and if it provided a talking-point — well , that was all to the good , was n't it ? |
| 18 | This meant all trains had to stop and , as Lydham Heath was our station , this was all to the good . |
| 19 | But men have had such experiences and done nothing further about them , either because they have decided that there was less to the experience than they at first supposed , or because they could not endure the ethical and spiritual demands which were implied in the unspoken , ineffable moment of divine knowledge . |
| 20 | True to the York principle his commitment was entirely to the person , sometimes causing exasperation to administrators . |
| 21 | It was greatly to the advantage of certain Gascon subjects of the king-duke to have a source of judicial appeal outside the duchy . |
| 22 | The 13 p.c. advance in profits to £8m in the industrial division was down to the inclusion of Flexible Technologies , a manufacturer of hoses pipes and flexible ducting , acquired for £34m at the end of August last year . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was down to the practice ground in the gloom for Jack and myself but I managed to get a message to Sally to meet me an hour later than planned . |
| 25 | After a flypast of more modern military life it was down to the business of unveiling the plaque which commemorates the role of the Three Hundred and Ninetieth . |
| 26 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 27 | This ambiguity was much to the taste of men whose drive was probably homosexual . |
| 28 | Their allegiance was thus to the king , who had appointed them and was the source of their power , and to their followers , for whom they sought offices , titles and pensions , rather than to their colleagues or to any leader amongst them . |
| 29 | His telephone rang almost at once ; he was through to the chief 's personal assistant , a grey-haired lady of vast experience who monitored and sometimes modulated communication ( other than face to face ) between the chief and the outside world — including his policemen . |
| 30 | That was through to the end of September . |