Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was due to go up to the Blue Mountains that morning and she started having pains , she said . |
| 2 | In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to . |
| 3 | It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway . |
| 4 | At Limoges the Young King was free to go over to the attack . |
| 5 | Now he was prepared to live up to the role . |
| 6 | But I was afraid to go back to the village . |
| 7 | It was this loco that regularly worked the 17.09 two coach local from Chesterfield to Sheffield in 1962 , and after school it was customary to go down to the station and wait for it to arrive light engine . |
| 8 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 9 | So did I , thought Juliet , and for once she was glad to get back to the ward . |
| 10 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 11 | In the case of the treaty it gave the opportunity for the Red Army to be created , which at a later date was able to go on to the offensive . |
| 12 | So then I was able to go back to the library . ’ |
| 13 | I worked my way — somewhat fearfully , I admit — into a gloomy stand of pines , and there found several fallen branches which I was able to drag back to the cave . |
| 14 | When he bolted the door , pulled down the shutter , put the chairs on the tables , emptied the till and swept the floor he was able to walk through to the back , climb the stairs , sprawl into a big armchair and look at his collection of pictures , news cuttings , fan club items , record sleeves and signed photographs of Shirley Temple . |
| 15 | Feeling oddly bereft and desolate , besieged by Dolly 's incessant chatter , Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel . |
| 16 | Aung San got through a message that he was ready to come over to the Allies while the Japanese understood that he would be fighting for them . |
| 17 | I was frightened to go back to the place that had torn me apart . ’ |