Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really regret it now , but at the time everything was right up to there , you know . |
| 2 | I mean it was right up to the wall , and the we 'd have bothered . |
| 3 | It was right up to his mouth when Lamarr Dean nudged him , reaching out and pushing him a little , and the mescal spilled over the Apache 's chin and down the front of his vest . |
| 4 | The wa the water was right up to there . |
| 5 | er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit |
| 6 | He was right up to it so I said well I do n't know whether you 're going round to view the house cos that 's on the market are n't they ? |
| 7 | Yeah , and it was right up to his windscreen |
| 8 | and there was this dump truck sort of about two foot out , he 'd obviously changed his mind and sort of had er stopped , had a Reliant Regal , you know a Reliant Regal it was right up to the windscreen and there was a pile of glass in , you know everywhere it was |
| 9 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 10 | Senna also made a brilliant start from eighth on the grid and was swiftly up to fifth and then fourth when he overcame Alesi in a wheel-to-wheel battle down the back section . |
| 11 | It was all up to Coleman . |
| 12 | Hitler was obviously up to no good . |
| 13 | Er we thought , we thought that the scheme was , the , the sheet was filled in properly er a apart possibly from the , the er initials as we suggested , putting people down on the quality plan , which was obviously down to timescales . |
| 14 | With Ken , it was constantly down to J. Arthur . |
| 15 | He added that it was entirely up to her whether she chose to assist . |
| 16 | Yes they gave us a drink of beer and that erm and that was entirely up to them and erm . |
| 17 | It was entirely up to her . |
| 18 | If a mistake was made , it was lifting ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ on to the back of the single , a decision which was entirely down to the band . |
| 19 | McAteer with the first and the second was entirely down to Lee who exploited the goalkeeper 's crumbling self-confidence . |
| 20 | ‘ Yesterday it was only up to my knees : by tomorrow or the next day it 'll be this high at least . ’ |
| 21 | In comparison , the risk for pipe and cigar smokers was only up to 10% higher than nonsmokers . |
| 22 | But police say that was only down to good fortune and not good driving . |
| 23 | He was soon up to his old tricks and with a view to recouping his losses he chartered a yacht called Filden I from its unsuspecting and perfectly respectable owner . |
| 24 | However , the effective force was soon down to 50 men : their issue shorts exposed men to malaria mosquitoes , and as the quinine powder had to be taken rolled in a cigarette paper — an anti-malaria dose many men dodged — illness spread quickly . |
| 25 | Such a pond would be extremely difficult to filter and the reason why your fish did well in it was undoubtably down to low stocking levels and a balanced plant population . |
| 26 | It was largely up to NME to cover all the bases at the time . |
| 27 | The first major attempt to use computer animation in a feature film was largely down to the novelty of the medium itself . |
| 28 | That he did not was largely down to an opening seven-frame blast from Parrott . |
| 29 | Flavia would have liked to hear more about this but Andrée was already on to something else . |
| 30 | ‘ If something was a loss , he was n't really concerned with that ; somebody else could clear that up — he was already on to the next thing . |