Example sentences of "[verb] off to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 2 | The devout and those with a full itinerary hurry off to the Abbey as the bell tolls for communion . |
| 3 | Two clipped young Gurkhas peel off to the side as the Queen stands before the two great thrones , flanked by a clutch of Yeomen of the Guard , pikes resting on their shoulders . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 7 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 8 | Despite this , many pet cats are carried off to the vet by exasperated owners for this type of ‘ convenience surgery ’ . |
| 9 | Tony and I drag our boats up the beach and head off to the rocks , our balance oddly disturbed by the many hours afloat . |
| 10 | In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink . |
| 11 | ‘ Especially when they see you getting into your Porsche , and driving off to the flat you own in Putney ? ’ |
| 12 | The sound of wheels turned in her ears again as she thought of Maman driving off to the railway station as if on some brisk pursuit . |
| 13 | That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States . |
| 14 | I 'm not allowed to go jetting off to the Caribbean , that 's all . |
| 15 | NURSES from South Tees are jetting off to the U.S. this month to find out about baby care , American style . |
| 16 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 17 | Everyone wished each other good luck and Mould , Matron and Endill headed off to the library . |
| 18 | In the car we bounded off to the reception at AMS , or Associated Medical Services , on Route 6 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Another short blast and the school moved off to the various classrooms . |
| 21 | I chatted with her while I weighed the potatoes , then I moved off to the wines and spirits section . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But even as she was unslinging her canvas bag , so the group moved off to the lifts again . |
| 24 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 25 | I moved off to the PGA caravan to have words with Sally about our tentative arrangement for dinner at her flat . |
| 26 | It was as a result of the Russian advance across the Urals that many Mansis and Khantys moved away from their homes , the latter crossing the Ob into the middle part of its basin , while some of the Selkups who had lived on the Ob , as well as Kets on the Yenisei , moved off to the north . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 29 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 30 | Mrs Archer told her that apart from three vacant rooms ‘ for the tourism ’ , all the others were let off to the council , who put homeless people into them . |