Example sentences of "and [verb] off to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 2 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 3 | Sons would volunteer and rush off to the village to bring back a ‘ set of couches ’ , proudly waiting for the praise which she would generously give , though they might not be quite what she expected . |
| 4 | He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right . |
| 5 | So they collected their actors and actresses , a film crew of twelve and their livestock and moved off to the Utah desert to begin filming . |
| 6 | In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink . |
| 7 | Tony and I drag our boats up the beach and head off to the rocks , our balance oddly disturbed by the many hours afloat . |
| 8 | ‘ Especially when they see you getting into your Porsche , and driving off to the flat you own in Putney ? ’ |
| 9 | My eyes are respectfully downcast while this paunch on legs breaks his wrist , blows a kiss , and sashays off to the tea-machine ? |
| 10 | We make the most of this and scoot off to the hospital . |
| 11 | Handcuffed and hauled off to the Los Angeles County jail , he was mug-photoed , fingerprinted and seemingly washed up . |
| 12 | Keep moving right and you should find the concert permit , jump up onto the purple wall and walk right to the other side , get one of the three crates and kill the mugger , then walk to the right and jump up three platforms to reach a heart , fall down to where you started then climb down the ladder with a crate , kill the workman , go down another level and kill the mugger ( avoiding the dog ) , go down another level , climb down the ladder and go down again , you can risk hitting the wire and flame to collect the records ( macho time again ) , climb down a final ladder and jump off to the left . |
| 13 | and rushed off to the Underground , |
| 14 | I shook my head , and she smiled and nodded and patted me on the shoulder and padded off to the kitchen . |
| 15 | He was a baby-faced product of the concerned middle classes , born in Derby and whisked off to the Home Counties at an early age . |
| 16 | Thanks to the rank stupidity of Steve Gillery 's bride-to-be , he had to hold his stag night on Saturday morning and rush off to the ceremony during half-time in the afternoon . |
| 17 | Then he shut the gate and ambled off to the house , shaking his head in perplexity , to complain to a sympathetic Dora in the kitchen . |
| 18 | We 'd camp next to the meeting and go off to the pub on the Saturday night , halfway through the decathlon . |
| 19 | The words just wo n't come any more , so I 'm going to put my biro down and go off to the post . |
| 20 | " Thanks , " she said , and went off to the gate , where she and her companion resumed their sharp-eyed stroll around the guilty streets . |
| 21 | Downstairs Mrs Diggory , holding fast to the protesting Hector 's collar , smiled to herself with grim satisfaction , and went off to the kitchen . |
| 22 | Then she methodically collected her bag , and went off to the Underground , walked up the streets to her mother 's house , and stood outside it looking at the " For Sale " sign . |
| 23 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 24 | The workhouse master reported that Connolly then put his boots on and went off to the police station to make a complaint of assault . |
| 25 | Phil 's 4th break in showbiz came when Pete Gabriel left the band and went off to the rainforest disguised as a flower . |
| 26 | ‘ I was upset at being kept awake by people snoring , ’ said Fintan , but after a moment he got up and went off to the buttery himself , ‘ because we need to know if the parsley butter is ready , ’ he said rather defiantly . |
| 27 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 28 | Very pleased , Cheryl bade her goodbye and tripped off to the bus-stop , collecting Mrs. Yatton 's shoes on the way . |
| 29 | Or some pathetic tailor like Taplow being trapped in his little cage and taken off to the slaughter house . |
| 30 | The designer , Sandy Powell , has known Anderson since their first day at St Martin 's when they played truant and headed off to the pub after about 15 minutes . |