Example sentences of "be [adv prt] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start .
2 WE 'RE off to Paris for the richest race in Europe , the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Sunday October 4 .
3 and good news from Hereford … in reply to Devon 's first innings total of one hundred and eighty one the county are one hundred and ninety six for two … a bit of speed to finish off with tonight … we 're off to Gloucestershire to the Prescott Hill Climb with Mark Kiff
4 They were the one side he dare not lose sight of and United are off to Highbury at the weekend only four points adrift .
5 He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before .
6 evening and they 'll be off to Glasgow for the weekend
7 But I 'll be off to Stamford in the morning to have a scent round .
8 Not all the parents will have a reading age of 17+ , be candidates for MENSA and be up to date with the latest educational jargon .
9 It was good to be up to date with the entering .
10 This is a kind of life and health insurance combined that covers replacement cost through death ( which can be up to £3000 in the case of a horse ) , theft or straying , and the cost of veterinary bills .
11 The penalty under the latter section may of course be up to 100% of the undeclared tax as opposed to the pay and file penalties of £100 , £200 plus 10% or 20% of underpaid tax .
12 By 1957–58 only a quarter of male students were manual workers and men were down to 42% of the total student body .
13 And they were about to trip over the first foot …
14 And it 's over to Ruben at the , at the stand commentary box .
15 BBC1 have the London Marathon in the morning , starting at 8.55am , then it 's over to ITV in the afternoon for the Rumbelow 's League Cup final between Manchester United and Nottingham Forest , and in the evening BBC2 give more than three hours to the closing stages of the US Masters from Augusta .
16 Well , it looks as though the Queen Mother is off to Scotland for the day , but that wo n't affect us , so it seems that we can go ahead .
17 I thought : That 's it — he 's off to London to the bright lights and that 'll be the end of us . ’ ’
18 But , it 's up to organisations like the ones we work for to respond to that and to not be doing the planning on behalf of other people .
19 The book is up to date with the Companies Act 1989 and all accounting and financial reporting standards and exposure drafts issued by the Accounting Standards Board up to August 1992 , including FRS2 .
20 I mean the book itself is just published last , er Thursday I believe it was , and er so it was up to date , is up to date until the summer , which is you know more up to date than any other book , so it 's got things like : Greta Garbo dying , and Princess Eugenie being born and Nelson Mandela being free , and of course it 's the first encyclopaedia to have all the details of nineteen eighty nine , the , the upheaval in , in Europe , all the political changes and whatever .
21 No he would n't ; after all , he was off to Marienbad on the 19th .
22 Yes , I told the old man at the gate — a sure method of propagating the lie — I was off to Hydra for the week-end .
23 So it was back to Melbourne for the first of the final matches .
24 Then it was back to Nickerson in the East for a campaign which included a second in the Jockey Club Gold Cup and a third in the Turf Classic .
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