Example sentences of "were [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , the management decided they were on to a loser , and the matter was allowed to sink into history . |
| 2 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 3 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 4 | Sir Nicholas Fairbairn , a former Solicitor-General for Scotland , said some lawyers were deliberately spinning out cases and were on to a meal ticket . |
| 5 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 6 | When you rang up that Saturday and checked the registration of the Rolls , I thought the police were on to the Theale murder . ’ |
| 7 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 8 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 9 | By the end of 1923 levels were down to the best pre-1921 records for Saratov . |
| 10 | Ross admits to being a little disappointed at the level of basic skills when he arrived , adding : ‘ A lot of the mistakes were down to the mental approach and lack of concentration , but , having said that , the attitude and determination of the players has been excellent throughout the season . ’ |
| 11 | Britain 's most famous ticket-broker said he will defy all his critics and remain as chairman , and claimed his problems were down to the media . |
| 12 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 13 | For a while it seemed as if all the woes of Welsh rugby were down to The Gnoll — though this theory was eventually disproved by the World Cup . |
| 14 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 15 | With only two weeks to go they were down to the cosmetic touches . |
| 16 | Arsenal were through to the next round , and it was the turning point in the club 's history . |
| 17 | The immigration procedures , even for Nadirpur , were a mere formality , and in under ten minutes all four passengers were through to the arrivals lounge . |
| 18 | The RSM brought everyone to attention , ‘ By the right , quick march , ’ barked the Officer and we were off to a jaunty 6–8 time , Blue Bonnets Over the Border , as I got under way . |
| 19 | As far as they knew , these 570 people were off to a temperance rally at Loughborough ; most of them were probably unaware that they were taking part in an historical journey — Thomas Cook 's first excursion in 1841 . |
| 20 | I put on my kilt , picked up my bagpipes , clambered aboard the truck , and we were off to the beach . |
| 21 | ‘ Carter was the first guy I sat down with to discuss this thing ’ , he told The Art Newspaper , ‘ and as soon as I did , we were off to the races ’ . |
| 22 | However , within a few overs of the start , we were off to the newsroom , and cries of disbelief were audible from living-rooms all around the country . |
| 23 | So we were off to the races . |
| 24 | They were off to the Nile to seek a new life , |
| 25 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 26 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 27 | The business with the whore had proved that they were up to no good . |
| 28 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 29 | American travellers became stranded in Europe and turned into expatriates or exiles in Henry James 's novels , shadowy amalgamation of foreign manners with shreds of familiar accents that were up to the narrator to decipher , but it could n't happen to her , not in 1928 , even with a crash . |
| 30 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |