Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrying on and saying I was up to no good , out till that time . |
| 2 | You might just remind your team that I would n't be working with IMP if they did n't think I was up to the job . |
| 3 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 4 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 5 | Now it seemed he did n't believe she was up to the task . |
| 6 | It had been a difficult afternoon , and she was not sure she was up to an evening of trying to extract information from Jamie Baird . |
| 7 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 8 | Rain fought back the impulse to grab her bag and check the contents , and then she was through to the Post . |
| 9 | After her fifth or sixth toke she was down to the end of the joint and a couple of the dried seeds exploded like miniature fireworks , making her jump and then starting her off giggling . |
| 10 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If these did n't work it was on to the funerals — huge fantasy ones . |
| 13 | Another Methuselah of Lutomer Riesling later , it was on to the Safeway own-brand cod fish fingers served on a bed of baked beans , accompanied by large dishes of McCain 's oven chips and Findus frozen peas , with a choice of HP sauce or plain ketchup . |
| 14 | After that it was on to the theatre for the evening show , then back to the Theatre Girls ' Club for , if they are to be believed , another meal of egg and chips . |
| 15 | Then it was on to the Salvation Army old people 's home where one resident remarked : ‘ How beautiful you are . |
| 16 | Then it was on to the chapel , where work from other faculties and departments was on show . |
| 17 | Once the basic outline of the artist 's sketches were reproduced , it was up to a team of colourists , some obviously better than others , to colour the 200 or so copies of each plate . |
| 18 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 19 | He said the party told Romania last month it was up to the Poles to choose their future through free elections . |
| 20 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 21 | The inquiry is limited to events after 1986 , but Mr Patten appeared to be saying that it was up to the head of the inquiry , under the oversight of the Police Complaints Authority , to decide whether to extend it . |
| 22 | They insisted that the massacre was China 's internal affair , that China had done nothing to harm the United States ' interests , and that it was up to the US to take the initiative in repairing relations . |
| 23 | It was up to the politicians to define the ends : an end to urban poverty , victory in Vietnam . |
| 24 | Laws used to specify offences such as loitering with intent or malicious wounding , so that it was up to the prosecutor to prove the evil character of an act that might be more or less culpable . |
| 25 | Whilst paying lip service to the concepts , the CEGB remained unconvinced that it should bother seriously with either conservation or the renewable sources of energy , especially if it meant abandoning Hinkley C. It was up to the government to decide whether to provide incentives for energy efficiency , whilst the renewables must wait until pilot projects showed their worth . |
| 26 | Bunting ( 1978 ) in more general terms disclaims this responsibility and states that with the introduction of high-yielding paddy it was to be expected there were social problems but it was up to the politicians to ‘ do something about it ’ . |
| 27 | Mr. Croucher replied that under the present law it was up to the applicant to notify other people of their intention in writing . |
| 28 | Mrs. Bethell said it was up to the youth committee to decide what they wanted . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |