Example sentences of "[vb past] off to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 2 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 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 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 5 | And he boobed when he sneaked off to an isolated toilet for a crafty fag — because his foreman was in the next cubicle . |
| 6 | She came off to a reasonable round . |
| 7 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |
| 8 | Across the nation aristocratic backwoodsmen , a tribe previously thought to be on the verge of extinction , tottered off to the nearest railway station to obey the summons . |
| 9 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
| 10 | The latest version got off to a controversial start when it was decided to cast stunning French actress Juliette Binoche in this most English of dramas . |
| 11 | THE new trading account got off to a lousy start with further bloodshed on the back of last week 's Autumn statement . |
| 12 | East Grinstead got off to a great start with an 11th minute goal , but in spite of their pressure — they won ten penalty corners to Holywood 's none — they seldom troubled goalkeeper Kyle Thompson . |
| 13 | MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland got off to a great start in the Woolworths Young Athletes League , winning their Northern Premier match at the Don Valley Stadium , Sheffield . |
| 14 | In front of over 22,000 fans Town got off to a great start , taking the lead after 34 minutes , Duncan Sheerer the scorer . |
| 15 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 16 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 17 | Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start . |
| 18 | Through William Agnew 's painting , and the notice it received , the Building Fund ( Agnew 's brainchild ) got off to a splendid start , and Agnew 's energy and his business contacts throughout Glasgow soon saw the Fund grow quickly . |
| 19 | The election campaign also got off to a poor start . |
| 20 | Second half was better , though it got off to a poor start with Speed and MacAllister passing the ball away to Ipswich players . |
| 21 | In short , the event got off to a cracking start . |
| 22 | Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January . |
| 23 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 24 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 25 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 26 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
| 27 | Wednesday , 28th August , 1839 , the first day of the Tournament , got off to a good start with a bright sun shining from a clear blue sky and the temperature high . |
| 28 | SOUTHPORT Railway Centre 's summer programme got off to a good start at Easter with a ‘ Four days of steam ’ event . |
| 29 | The hotel got off to a good start . |
| 30 | In Scotland , sales at Thins got off to a good start in December , became tougher , then ended with a gallop . |