Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] off to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced involuntarily at Jennifer Morgan who said she would make tea , which was what her mother preferred , and bore her off to the kitchen . |
| 2 | The band trundled back to their hotel — the infamous Chelsea Hotel — to get their best party rags on and were halfway through their quick-change when the NY police burst into their room and hauled them off to the station . |
| 3 | She noticed Diana 's uncertainty and , ignoring the other guests who were still buzzing over Diana 's choice of dress , whisked her off to the powder room . |
| 4 | The pressure became too much as sponsors , fly-by-nights and average New Zealanders sent them off to the World Cup with the message that all New Zealand expected them to win . |
| 5 | Ellie pleaded , as Madame marched her off to the coiffeuse two floors up . |
| 6 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
| 7 | Penry hurried her off to a row of garages on one side of the road leading from the beach into the village . |
| 8 | Some woman turned up on his doorstep and simply swept him off to the county cricket ground in Taunton in her car . ’ |