Example sentences of "[verb] off to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets . |
| 2 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 3 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 4 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 5 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 6 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 7 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 8 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |
| 9 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |
| 10 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 11 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 12 | A farm track led off to the left opposite , flanked by deep drainage ditches . |
| 13 | Whole rooms of the Turk 's Head were taken over by bits of fairground waiting for the revival that would send Uncle Titch and Grandad chortling off to the local branch of the Co-op . |
| 14 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 15 | Do you remember many people going off to the Red Brigade ? |
| 16 | Moore , he rocketed off to the very opposite of metaphysical extremes . |
| 17 | Mr Hall said the Government was dismantling the rail network to let off to the private sector . |
| 18 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 19 | FAST-MOVING comic-strip spoof on US life and politics , Phoenix Beam 's cult American Eagle lands at Willesden Green Library Centre , 95 High Road , London NW10 ( tel : 01 451 0294 ) , December 15-16 , before zooming off to the Lyric Theatre , Hammersmith ( 01 641 2311 ) , with open workshops and signed performances for the deaf , Dec 19-Jan 13 . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm surprised you have n't had the window-frame shipped off to the Black Museum . ’ |
| 21 | Just why is unclear but follow it and , four miles before Gubbio , a road branches off to the beautiful region of Monte Maggiore . |
| 22 | There are signs of civilisation along here , with a scattering of crofts and farmsteads , and a narrow road branches off to the isolated community of Badluarach , a lonely outpost at the entrance to Little Loch Broom . |
| 23 | ‘ Hey dad , that 's Vic Halom , ’ said a lad of about ten scurrying off to the big match . |
| 24 | before you rush off to the local retailer , cash in hand , take a little time to consider the type of runner you are and what you really need . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll give it her back , ’ said Lee , running off to the far side of the orchard . |
| 26 | Hurricanes of 213 , 229 and 238 Squadron aboard H.M.S. ‘ Furious ’ on 21 May 1941 ready to fly off to the Middle East via Malta on Operation ‘ Splice ’ . |
| 27 | In a cross wind it almost always pays to turn off to the down wind side first . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's gone off to the High Court , sir . ’ |
| 29 | Now there 's a little piece , can I mention a little piece in the local thing , there 's a little press release here which Robert produced and sent off to the local newspaper . |
| 30 | If , however , the dance told the bees where to go , they should go off to the wrong place ( depending on where Gould had put the light bulb ) . |