Example sentences of "[verb] off [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So tearing off to find the sparrow . |
| 2 | Theodora and the Major moved off to collect the horses from the loose boxes at the north end of the yard . |
| 3 | In time , however , she rose and moved off to sample the hedgerow , stretching her long , white neck to nibble delicately at the tips of the hawthorn . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ Santerre mumbled and trudged off to join the others . |
| 5 | The lights were turned off to keep the mosquitos away . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , ’ he replied , wandering off to find the alarm controls . |
| 7 | We continued into the upper , easier couloir , not realising that most people abseil off to avoid the long haul to the summit . |
| 8 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 9 | On reading such statements , would Ptolemy have seen the error of his ways , instantly recanted and toddled off to join the Copernican revolution ? |
| 10 | The road out of Shiel Bridge runs along the south side of Loch Duich and soon arrives at a junction where a no-through-branch turns off to serve the scattered habitations along the shore , ending at Totaig and the forlorn slipway of the abandoned ferry to Dornie . |
| 11 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 12 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 13 | He describes what happens after a typical Russian business deal : ‘ One man goes off to find the goods and the other to find the money . |
| 14 | He decides he must do something about it and goes off to find the works engineer . |
| 15 | ‘ Therese does n't want him to go off to paint the Belgian ambassador 's wife . ’ |
| 16 | He stalked off to find the airport bus to take them to the SNCF railway station at Roissy , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him as best he could . |
| 17 | It is said that Alexander himself paced out the plan for his Egyptian city before hurrying off to conquer the rest of the world . |
| 18 | Two creditors , the consultant engineers on the project and the architects involved , have applied for a court order that the convent should be sold off to meet the debts . |
| 19 | Two creditors , the consultant engineers on the project and the architects involved , have applied for a court order that the convent should be sold off to meet the debts . |
| 20 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 21 | She trips off to view the fashion show . |
| 22 | Durham City meet Middlesbrough at Hollow Drift in another noon kick off to accommodate the France v England international . |
| 23 | Realizing this , Randy shook off Mike at the throw-in and raced off to level the score . |
| 24 | Any seasoned dieter knows full well that she can ‘ cheat ’ that weight off the normal set of bathroom scales by shifting her stance a little or rushing off to empty the bladder , remove the dentures and so on . |
| 25 | Lalu falls in love with mule skinner Jim ( a rather lacklustre Dennis Dun ) , who lopes off to raise the readies to buy her from slimy Hong King ( Michael Paul Chan ) leaving her in the care of his friend Charlie Bemis ( Chris Cooper ) , a compassionate but cowardly Yankee with a booze problem . |
| 26 | While the officials , commentators and chess groupies then lingered over an enjoyable buffet , the players and their seconds rushed off to put the finishing touches to six months of preparations . |
| 27 | ‘ They all rushed off to do the next scene . |
| 28 | For such persons , being a butler is like playing some pantomime role ; a small push , a slight stumble , and the façade will drop off to reveal the actor underneath . |
| 29 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 30 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |