Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] off to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this , we mean that it will ascend perfectly when the sail is under pressure , and the line tension applies a driving force ; but it will tumble or spin off to the right or left if the line tension is relaxed . |
| 2 | But Ludens was not concerned now with writing his ‘ next book ’ , or rushing off to Rome or Paris to read in libraries . |
| 3 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 4 | Simon then had the agonising decision as to whether Wizard should stay or go off to pastures new . |
| 5 | Until 1961 hordes of the city 's small boys believed that the barrel-laden barges were bound for the Spanish Main or headed off to far exotic lands . |
| 6 | Beyond the door was a narrow corridor that led off to the right . |
| 7 | The community is signposted " Durrenroth " at a side road that goes off to the right ( and later rejoins the main road further on ) . |
| 8 | Shortly beyond Huswil , at Gettnau ( 10km , 6 miles from Huttwil ) road 23 continues straight ahead east to Sursee ( on the Sempacher Lake ) , but take instead a branch that goes off to the right for Willisau , a thirteenth-century foundation . |
| 9 | So you too would assume quoick transformation we 've got a geometric progression in here that goes off to infinity alright which is equivalent to that , that little thing alright , we 've got three parameters here this one , that one and that one , alright , so we converted what is an infinite stream into a finite stream using this er , quoick transformation . |
| 10 | I 'd parked Armstrong around the side of Sedgeley House in one of the diagonal streets that run off to the Edgware Road . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 13 | Perhaps the unsuccessful divisions can be packaged and sold off to someone who believes they can be made to work . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain . |
| 17 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |
| 18 | Sukarno , Hatta , their ministers and Sjahrir ( retained as an adviser ) were all arrested and flown off to places of exile . |
| 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 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At the last minute the parent would abandon its charade and fly off to safety . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Tony and I drag our boats up the beach and head off to the rocks , our balance oddly disturbed by the many hours afloat . |
| 25 | In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink . |
| 26 | As each emerges , it is received by a worker and carried off to one of the nursery chambers , there to be carefully cherished . |
| 27 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 28 | Before words can be exchanged , however , they sup up and slip off to some other pub . |
| 29 | The chauffeur had the night off , he was celebrating down in Basildon , so Babs and I got into my Porsche and headed off to Ealing . |
| 30 | Soon Yvonne will be packing her bags and jetting off to Greece for a holiday in the sun . |