Example sentences of "off to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 2 | Many will therefore be hived off to quango-like agencies based on the eight-county structure . |
| 3 | I stumbled off to polite applause . |
| 4 | You can take a cruise down the Nile , fly off to sun-drenched Barbados or choose any holiday you wish . |
| 5 | When his bastard turned out to be studious , the boy was accepted into the English bachelor 's house for a short time before he was shipped off to prep school and public school in his father 's country . |
| 6 | After that students go off to vocational and on-the-job training . |
| 7 | We were always hidden away somewhere , I was packed off to various boarding-schools , he gave us piles of money , he just did n't want to see us ! |
| 8 | Although practical experience was not required , Balliol decided to build its own laboratory , and asked Smith to run it , sending him off to various distinguished chemists to obtain an appropriate training . |
| 9 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 10 | The third one : once the buzz bombs started to come over it was at last realised that it was n't a very good idea to have children evacuated directly on the flight path between Germany and London , and we were all shipped off to other locations , myself to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 11 | They will go off to other projects , he fears , and the Ethiopians , in common with the rest of us who want to understand our origins , will be the losers . |
| 12 | They will go off to other projects , he fears , and the Ethiopians , in common with the rest of us who want to understand our origins , will be the losers . |
| 13 | The class disciplines of stations broke down , although in many places the wealthiest took themselves off to other forms of transport . |
| 14 | From the large entrance hall , old oak doors and passages led off to other parts of the house , a large open staircase facing them . |
| 15 | Now they 've gone off to other groups handing out food , like Food for Work and the Mothers ' Clubs where they do weaving and knitting and things like that . ’ |
| 16 | The navvies and the bricklayers , masons and blacksmiths , would troop off to other masters . |
| 17 | About midnight we shall head off to Central Office . ’ |
| 18 | Yet standing in its austere reception hall , leading off to early Romano-British antiquities in one direction and library halls in the other , it is hard to deny the scope for a more populist approach . |
| 19 | Dreaming of ensnaring a visitor who will whisk him off to fabulous Detroit , Sonny is completely unaware that ‘ people do n't go there . |
| 20 | We went on to do a good matinée performance and came off to thunderous applause and whistles of appreciation . |
| 21 | The end product could be a jointly-owned network ( unless the Reagan administration decides , instead , to sell its satellites off to private enterprise ) . |
| 22 | Oh , a at nineteen forty eight they split up the electric supply and the three was nationalized and erm it , it just went out of the control of the local councils , it was government controlled then and there was a distinct possibility that the transport section would be sold off to private enterprise and the only private enterprise that was capable of taking over then was the Eastern Counties but erm I think the , the erm local council having had the transport under their wing for so many years , fought off that erm feeling and erm they kept with it and er , of course all the accountancy went to the Borough Treasurer and the certain members of clerks from the Borough Treasurers , which was at in those days , er seconded on to transport accounts . |
| 23 | A couple of summers back , a lot of new age disciples rushed off to remote mountain tops to await a momentous signal to occur They waited and waited for something exciting to happen . |
| 24 | The final got off to explosive start when in the seventh minute Glasgow were awarded a penalty . |
| 25 | The third reason why Dzerzhinsky was sent off to distant Siberia was purely political , and had little to do with the railways . |
| 26 | Flying saucers and kidnapping aliens have been postulated to explain the disappearance of whole vessels , supposedly spirited off to distant stars . |
| 27 | And sent him off to distant jungles . |
| 28 | A quantity of ore is here shipped off to distant smelting-houses . |
| 29 | The orchestra is certainly very accomplished and is shown off to good advantage in quite a big bold and well-detailed recording made at St John 's , Smith Square . |
| 30 | Everton got off to good start but are slipping down the table … |