Example sentences of "i be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And what d' you mean , what 'ave I been up to ? |
| 2 | ‘ If Major Calder and I are about to be deprived of your services , ’ Carew answered evenly , ‘ then we 'll have to use another and faster method of disrupting the IRB organisation . ’ |
| 3 | Jane and I are off to Italy — a photographic assignment — otherwise we would have held onto them a while longer . |
| 4 | ‘ I am here to — ‘ |
| 5 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
| 6 | Without the which I am not to be won , |
| 7 | ‘ It seems I am not to be Archdeacon of Woodborough . |
| 8 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 9 | Sir , I am not to be caught by a bait so poorly covered as this ! |
| 10 | I reach up and bolt the door , which I am not to , but can not control it for once . |
| 11 | I am not to be intimidated by house plants and silk ties , she thought . |
| 12 | I hope I am not to be cast absolutely into the outer darkness , Helen — I should find that very wretched . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You are sure I am up to it ? ’ she remarked a little naughtily ; it would help if he underrated her — another of Papa 's precepts she had found worth following . |
| 14 | Now I am up to something like State 4 ( ‘ Raises dust and loose paper ’ ) , according to the only reference to the original scale that I can find in Registry , or perhaps 5 ( ‘ Small trees in leaf begin to sway ’ ) it seems to me that States 4 and 5 is where I mostly am . |
| 15 | And incidentally , ’ added the canny Scot , ‘ I am now to be known as Princess Deborah Barbecue . |
| 16 | ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Every time I go to Cambridge I come back depressed as hell ; then as soon as I am back to a Norfolk class spirits soar again . |
| 18 | Now I am back to normal . |
| 19 | As one teacher said , ‘ I am still to be convinced whether the energy and time required to do effective evaluation would balance the increased efficiency in teaching which might follow . ’ |
| 20 | His moustache be so fine , I am nigh to a swound ! |
| 21 | After the meeting of the Cabinet held that same Sunday evening , when it became apparent that agreement could not be reached on the economy package , MacDonald , on his way to the palace , told Sir Ernest Harvey , the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand . ' |
| 22 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she said , ‘ I am off to the pub . |
| 23 | Had he not left them the night before , exclaiming : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand ’ ? |
| 24 | And a little nervous that I am about to be ticked off for my unorthodox and amiable occupation of the Rosenbloom . |
| 25 | My heart , or what passes for one in demonic physiology , is in my mouth , for fear that I am about to be exiled from Rainbow Rosenbloom , and from Chinese food , movies and other earthly delights , for evermore . |
| 26 | I 'm through to the final , and now I must make absolutely certain I 'm in the right frame of mind . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I 'm away to my lunch . |
| 28 | I 'm away to the dentist myself . ’ |
| 29 | I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this . |
| 30 | " I 'm away to London tonight and then to France . " |