Example sentences of "was [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a short while he was on to the subject of Libya 's exports . |
| 2 | Another Methuselah of Lutomer Riesling later , it was on to the Safeway own-brand cod fish fingers served on a bed of baked beans , accompanied by large dishes of McCain 's oven chips and Findus frozen peas , with a choice of HP sauce or plain ketchup . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then it was on to the chapel , where work from other faculties and departments was on show . |
| 7 | If these did n't work it was on to the funerals — huge fantasy ones . |
| 8 | Then it was on to the Salvation Army old people 's home where one resident remarked : ‘ How beautiful you are . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
| 11 | Health Minister Brian Mawhinney , speaking at Stoke Mandeville Hospital he said the decision was down to the doctors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When both worked , it was down to the skills of the two drivers and there seemed very little to distinguish them . |
| 14 | After all the mechanics were finished it was down to the chassis , bodywork and interior . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That was through to the end of September . |
| 20 | Rain fought back the impulse to grab her bag and check the contents , and then she was through to the Post . |
| 21 | After the show had ended , the black Cizeta on display was off to the company 's first client in Singapore , who 'll be $630,000 lighter for the privilege of owning the world 's only V16-engined production car . |
| 22 | Lady Rutherford was off to the kitchen like a steamship , with us trailing in her wake . |
| 23 | By the time he told her he must go , and was off to the Republic for a day or two , she was placated . |
| 24 | So it was off to the department stores of central London with a LASMO cheque to kit himself out with warm and waterproof clothes as a matter of some urgency . |
| 25 | Someone had mentioned that the ski-jump was off to the right , but visibility was only 50 yards and it could not be seen . |
| 26 | When Minton first met him he had already discovered Soho and , whilst telling his opera-singer mother that he was off to the Science Museum , would take the tube to Tottenham Court Road to wash dishes in the Budapest run by Victor Sassie ( later the proprietor of the Gay Hussar ) . |
| 27 | But itr was up to the council to decide who was a gypsy and who was not . |
| 28 | Moreover the whole point of the form of the public corporation favoured by moderate opinion in all parties ( and represented in the Labour Party by the Morrisonian conception ) was that it was up to the management ( and not the politicians or civil servants ) to develop the details of policy and organisation within only very broad guidelines . |
| 29 | Whilst paying lip service to the concepts , the CEGB remained unconvinced that it should bother seriously with either conservation or the renewable sources of energy , especially if it meant abandoning Hinkley C. It was up to the government to decide whether to provide incentives for energy efficiency , whilst the renewables must wait until pilot projects showed their worth . |
| 30 | His Union Rep. was up to the occasion and had scoured the notice boards for restrictions on locomotive types without success . |