Example sentences of "he was [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His telephone rang almost at once ; he was through to the chief 's personal assistant , a grey-haired lady of vast experience who monitored and sometimes modulated communication ( other than face to face ) between the chief and the outside world — including his policemen . |
| 2 | ( Gary was the only exception I knew to this rule , and then only when he was up to no good ) . ’ |
| 3 | Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface . |
| 4 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 5 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 6 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 7 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 8 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 9 | Within a short while he was on to the subject of Libya 's exports . |
| 10 | Now he was off to a nine p.m. to one a.m . |
| 11 | Each evening he was off to the local pub The Royal Oak where he apparently became the life and soul of the party . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When Minton first met him he had already discovered Soho and , whilst telling his opera-singer mother that he was off to the Science Museum , would take the tube to Tottenham Court Road to wash dishes in the Budapest run by Victor Sassie ( later the proprietor of the Gay Hussar ) . |
| 14 | The first glimpse , the blond mane backstage … and then he was out to a standing ovation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was the left-hander 's eighth century , in his 29th Test , and at 382 minutes ( nine fours ) is the slowest-ever for Australia : he was out to the first-delivery with the new ball , which was taken 16 overs after it became due . |
| 17 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 18 | But , 24 hours later , he was back to the player who before this Test had made just 333 from 19 innings at an average of 17.53 . |
| 19 | By the time he was 22 he was down to a 9 handicap and was off 2 when he turned professional at the start of last year . |