Example sentences of "off to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was essential to get as much flying time as possible , for John was off to Wildenrath the following day and it would have been almost impossible to arrange another date to carry out the all-important conversion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then it was off to Benny 's , the all night showbiz bar . |
| 4 | I see oh er fireworks winner Mrs from Eastwood heard the firework noise just then so she 's off to Alton Towers with the family to see the fireworks stop calling for that now . |
| 5 | " I 'm not available for a late Ryder Cup call — I 'm off to Japan next week . " |
| 6 | DARLINGTON Sixth Form student Paul Walker is off to Japan for a two week all-expenses paid trip . |
| 7 | Within weeks the pair were off to Phuket in Thailand with the Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie , with Bryan still claiming ‘ financial advice ’ as his forte . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose you 'll be off to Colonel Murchison 's this afternoon with this weather and all ? ’ he said , with tongue in cheek . |
| 9 | They were the one side he dare not lose sight of and United are off to Highbury at the weekend only four points adrift . |
| 10 | We stayed friends even though he went to university and I did n't , even though he went off to Nineveh and Distant Ophir and I did n't , even though I went into the Bank and had a steady job while he flitted from one bit of temporary work to another and eventually ended up teaching English as a foreign language in a side street off the Edgware Road . |
| 11 | Fitzroy Maclean was sent off to Persia , and his exploits there fall outside the scope of this book , although he was employing skills learned with the SAS . |
| 12 | Off to Seville |
| 13 | The feeling is mutual , but is he ready to run off to California with her ? |
| 14 | The feeling is mutual , but is he ready to run off to California with her ? |
| 15 | Not only has the élite closed itself off to interlopers ( some 70 per cent of officer cadets at the Odessa High Artillery Military School are sons of active duty officers ) ; but , on the evidence , skilled workers have become downwardly mobile members of society . |
| 16 | One way of dealing with these problems is to run off a standard pro-forma , to fill in the blank spaces and send them off to parents . |
| 17 | A few days later , he was off to south London , where he concentrated on the subject of deserts — his speciality . |
| 18 | We 're off to South America now to join up again with the Camel Trophy … an international expedition through Brazil and Guyana … |
| 19 | We 're off to South America now to join up again with the Camel Trophy … an international expedition through Brazil and Guyana … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Off to Lourdes |
| 23 | A third alternative , proposed by Demsetz ( 1968 ) , is for the rights to supply to be auctioned off to bidders whose bids would be in the form of a contract to supply at a given price ( rather like bids for the construction of a motorway ) . |
| 24 | Immediately angry , manipulated by these evidently false accusations ( like Coriolanus , Lear can not see that the whole purpose of them is to make him angry ) , Lear regrets the ‘ most small fault ’ that had caused him to disown Cordelia ( 275ff. ) , curses Goneril with appalling violence ( 284ff. ) , and sweeps off to Regan . |
| 25 | He 's off to Stoke for £50,000 . |
| 26 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 27 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 28 | 08.30 Fred Allcock , who has already been given temporary hand-written despatch documents by John Bell , drives off to Stadium Plastics . |
| 29 | Lays down the law , then off to golf and booze . ’ |
| 30 | Well if you see him going off to golf |