Example sentences of "[vb past] off to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 2 | Everyone wished each other good luck and Mould , Matron and Endill headed off to the library . |
| 3 | In the car we bounded off to the reception at AMS , or Associated Medical Services , on Route 6 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another short blast and the school moved off to the various classrooms . |
| 6 | I chatted with her while I weighed the potatoes , then I moved off to the wines and spirits section . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But even as she was unslinging her canvas bag , so the group moved off to the lifts again . |
| 9 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 10 | I moved off to the PGA caravan to have words with Sally about our tentative arrangement for dinner at her flat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 14 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 15 | Having admired the kingly tomb and added the name ‘ O'Connor ’ to my list of families who might accept the Irish throne , I wandered off to the Abbey Hotel . |
| 16 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 17 | For whole days he wandered off to the cafés and bars in a stand to assert his independence . |
| 18 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 19 | Tommy wandered off to the cookhouse tent and returned half an hour later with two hot cocoas and two dry biscuits . |
| 20 | She ran , jumped on her girlfriend 's motorbike and they roared off to the house in the middle of the ricefields where they were staying , the bike slewing around in panic . |
| 21 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 22 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 23 | They drove off to the police station and later returned to the pub with two officers . |
| 24 | The cow was bled , pulled into a van and the peer drove off to the abattoir . |
| 25 | When daylight dawned , Kermit drove off to the hangar expecting to find it standing . |
| 26 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 27 | SNEAKED off to the loo for a secret drag . |
| 28 | And he boobed when he sneaked off to an isolated toilet for a crafty fag — because his foreman was in the next cubicle . |
| 29 | While Liz was nibbling pistachio nuts , surveying dominions , Shirley , hot , red and angry ( but not appearing to be angry ) was listening yet once more to her mother-in-law 's description of her digestive system and what the doctor had said about the swelling of her legs , a commentary which followed closely upon her complaints about the absence of her two older grandchildren who had ( in Shirley 's view very wisely ) buggered off to a disco at Maid Marian 's Nitespot . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm here , ’ she screamed , and digging her heels into Hermia , went straight into a gallop towards the helicopter , followed by 199 yelling Pony Club members , who fortunately veered off to the left , and did n't trample the new arrivals to death . |