Example sentences of "and [pron] was [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 3 | If China was ‘ backward ’ , it was its own fault and it was up to the people , led by the intellectuals , to do something about it . |
| 4 | The loch ends at Aberchalder and it was back to the canal for the last haul to Fort Augustus and Loch Ness . |
| 5 | Monday dawned , as Mondays will , and it was back to the Soho Laundry . |
| 6 | Collecting my thoughts I baited up with a fresh squid and cast back out to the same spot , bobbin on the needle and it was back to the bedchair . |
| 7 | I went to the Bluecoat School in Walsall and they erm they used to run a A T C wing in there which later to belonged to and they they brought this Hawker Demon in , which was a plane into the playground for the instruction of the A T C fellas and the kids all ripped the canvas off it for souvenirs and it was down to a skeleton in no time |