Example sentences of "[adv] he be [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps he was just to bizarre in the end , wanting too much clever play .
2 Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric .
3 So he 's away to Kilkeel and I says getting engaged and he says to me do you want rid of me or something ?
4 France and civilian life has done nothing for him , and so he is off to Algeria to get tanned and fight .
5 Soon he is back to his normal diet .
6 Oh he was great tonight he was back to his normal self tonight .
7 Still he was nowhere to be seen .
8 For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office .
9 I mean , OK I went mad in Barbados or whatever and the rest of it , but the rest of the band are like , ‘ Oh , X went mad , now he 's back to normal , it 's sweet . ’
10 British under 16 champion twice now he 's off to the European Championships …
11 If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her .
12 Now he was off to a nine p.m. to one a.m .
13 The man with golden goal touch at the County Ground is still Craig Maskell … the two hundred and fifty thousand pounds that Swindon gave Reading for him is beginning to look chicken feed … 15 goals this season … the last two came last week against Southend … tomorrow he 's off to Ashton gate to shoot Bristol City down …
14 Hereford 's top scorer is Owen Pickard … he 's hit seven this season … the best possibly his first on the opening day … tomorrow he 's off to Gigg Lane to have a crack at Bury …
15 Tomorrow he is off to Chequers to join the great and the good and John Major for drinks .
16 Today he 's nowhere to be found .
17 ‘ But although he may seem quite well he 's still to be handled with care .
18 Presumably he 's not to be soft-soaped by a glass of Amontillado . ’
19 Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard .
20 Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface .
21 The first glimpse , the blond mane backstage … and then he was out to a standing ovation .
22 ‘ OK , that looks pretty crazy , I 'll admit , but sometimes I think maybe he 's up to something , maybe he 's not really crazy after all .
23 Maybe he 's back to his old habits ? ’
24 " He knows when he 's on to something good , and he 's loyal to his staff , I 'll give him that , whatever he may have to say to anyone behind closed doors .
25 I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’
26 MIKE ATHERTON 's hope of retaining his England Test place took a blow today , when he was out to a careless stroke in front of Graham Gooch .
27 And also I knew he 'd booked a holiday to go to Antigua , but me being totally ignorant about cricket , did n't realise he was going to watch the Antigua versus England test match in April , so that 's where he 's off to in April .
28 Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him .
29 Telling MPs why he was off to the ‘ icy wastes ’ of the backbenches , the ex-Fun Minister said he felt like Captain Oates — the member of Scott 's Antarctic expedition who walked out into the snow to die to give his companions a better chance of survival .
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