Example sentences of "off to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We make the most of this and scoot off to the hospital . |
| 2 | The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway . |
| 3 | We went off to the canteen . |
| 4 | The words just wo n't come any more , so I 'm going to put my biro down and go off to the post . |
| 5 | In a cross wind it almost always pays to turn off to the down wind side first . |
| 6 | Off to the hairdresser . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , fuck you ! ’ shouted Martin , and stomped off to the spare room . |
| 8 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 9 | Each district to be balloted to produce its squad for the six thousand , and if the ballot brings up your name , ’ he paused again and saw the hundreds of eyes fixed on his , ‘ then you must go off to the Army , or else pay £10 to hire a substitute . |
| 10 | What — ‘ They are off to the Castle , where else ? |
| 11 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 12 | ‘ Off to the land of opportunity , are you ? ’ he said jovially and reproachfully . |
| 13 | Class 313s continued to look after the inner suburban system , and the now non-standard 1977-series Class 312s were packed off to the Colchester line . |
| 14 | ‘ I am always sending my producers off to the BBC music library , telling them to seek a breadth of listening : let's be adventurous , dangerous and interesting . ’ |
| 15 | Hand 's team , however , replied impressively seven minutes later when Maskell , transfer-listed at his own request after scoring 33 goals last season , scored his first of this , Cecere laying the ball off to the ambitious young man whose crisp drive was a powerful argument for a rise in status . |
| 16 | The European champions got off to the best possible start when the full-back Graeme Rutjes headed them into the lead after 12 minutes . |
| 17 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 18 | I put on my kilt , picked up my bagpipes , clambered aboard the truck , and we were off to the beach . |
| 19 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 20 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
| 21 | In 1954 I was eight and every Saturday morning I would set off to the movies with my first boyfriend , ten year old Skippy . |
| 22 | It would then whoosh straight off to the central cashiers ' office . |
| 23 | His dad who was always popping in asking if anyone wanted to come down the pub — he was always off to the pub — also wrote the lyrics to our first song , ‘ Scarface ’ They were truly horrendous : ‘ Scarface , scarface , scarred from ear to ear , Scarface , the girls do n't even care . |
| 24 | After the meeting of the Cabinet held that same Sunday evening , when it became apparent that agreement could not be reached on the economy package , MacDonald , on his way to the palace , told Sir Ernest Harvey , the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand . ' |
| 25 | She had taken Maggie off to the sunshine . |
| 26 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 27 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 28 | But you do n't have to rush off to the other extreme . |
| 29 | At the top , just off to the left , is a hut , placed there , I assume , to help struggling people like me . |
| 30 | The praise was complete and we all departed , the minister helicoptering off to the high mountains to give worship to the farmers herding their stock . |