Example sentences of "off to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his boasts of political eminence in England , the Leader of the British National Socialist Party had a dread of being bundled off to internment in Silesia as an undesirable alien . |
| 2 | A few days later , he was off to south London , where he concentrated on the subject of deserts — his speciality . |
| 3 | We 're off to South America now to join up again with the Camel Trophy … an international expedition through Brazil and Guyana … |
| 4 | We 're off to South America now to join up again with the Camel Trophy … an international expedition through Brazil and Guyana … |
| 5 | Then off to North Parade in 1833 , where two ‘ Miss Titford 's ’ followed the same business as milliners , the other , Elizabeth , being almost certainly Mary 's niece , daughter of her brother Benjamin who had died in London in 1816 . |
| 6 | I think she maybe takes the exams in June and gets the results in July and er then we 're fifty in August and then we go off to North America in September I think , you know , er I think , I , I ca n't quite remember the details but erm |
| 7 | 08.30 Fred Allcock , who has already been given temporary hand-written despatch documents by John Bell , drives off to Stadium Plastics . |
| 8 | Lays down the law , then off to golf and booze . ’ |
| 9 | Well if you see him going off to golf |
| 10 | In the morning Dot went off to school and he was n't there . |
| 11 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 12 | As we shall see , these days the concept of parental responsibility seems to demand considerably more involvement in a child 's education than simply packing him or her off to school every day . |
| 13 | When young Thomas Carter returned from his duties about 10.00 , he was given bread and cheese for his lunch , and was Packed off to school with his brother . |
| 14 | All too soon Emily was off to school , and Pippa had flown home again . |
| 15 | After a birthday egg-and-bacon fry up , Willie ran off to school . |
| 16 | The next morning , after Master had gone off to school for the day , Sergeant decided to pay a visit to Riverbank to see his new friend Anabelle Hedgehog . |
| 17 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 18 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 19 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 20 | Only the twins are able to convince the terrorist stone to renounce his plan , yet once the crisis has been averted they are sent off to school in Germany . |
| 21 | She could n't eat any of her meal and went off to school where she had to sit alongside Mr Clark 's daughter . |
| 22 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 23 | Then get the whole lot into their coats ready to march off to school , which was only round the corner . |
| 24 | It was her practice to watch Weenie and Co. off to school , but without letting them know she did it . |
| 25 | You knew I 'd move in with you — perhaps you already felt our child kick inside your belly — ; you saw us wave it off to school . |
| 26 | It was only after she had packed Emily off to school next morning that , with a sudden feeling of doom , Lisa remembered . |
| 27 | Lisa was up early next morning and on the phone to Emily , anxious to speak to her daughter before she went off to school . |
| 28 | They could sense a difference in the days now , sometimes there was almost a rime of frost on the shady side of the woods , and the old pony 's cost was thickening ; in the mornings they went off to school . |
| 29 | Fresh-faced and bright-eyed , we five-year-olds trooped off to school : troubled and sophisticated we returned , the stuffing all knocked out of us . |
| 30 | Each was given a bedside clock as a prize-winner — just to make sure they get off to school on time ! |