Example sentences of "[vb pp] off to the [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No , he 'd scarper , and leave me to get hauled off to the nearest loony-bin . |
| 7 | [ PAMELA enters and is shown off to the visiting aristocrats . ] |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm surprised you have n't had the window-frame shipped off to the Black Museum . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's gone off to the High Court , sir . ’ |
| 10 | These are rounded off to the nearest number of complete bars . ) |
| 11 | Thus , for example , rather than barring production above current levels of , say , asbestos at each plant throughout the nation , a ceiling on national production could be imposed with the rights to manufacture within the total being auctioned off to the highest bidders . |
| 12 | Last term 's fund-raising efforts have now raised £1,048 for the Leukaemia Research Fund — and two sacks of old postage stamps have been sent off to the Blue Peter Appeal in aid of Romanian children . |
| 13 | As priyayi he obtained an education in a Teachers ' Training School and was sent off to the little island of Bali . |
| 14 | Likewise , Minton 's huge harbour scene , returned from the Lefevre , was sent off to the Royal Academy 's 1949 Summer Exhibition where it attracted the ridicule of Sir Alfred Munnings . |
| 15 | Rated third in the supercomputer market with a significant 16% stake acclaimed to it , AMT 's aim to provide affordable supercomputing systems seemingly paid off to the outside world . |