Example sentences of "[vb pp] off to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally they are ambushed and taken prisoner by the enemy ( the former lager-louts risen from the dead and now wearing masks ) ; Hadfield goes catatonic with terror , and is solicitously carried off to re-education in the jungle . |
| 2 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 3 | Willie had already helped paint the scenery but had been asked to take over as prompter when Matthew Browne had been suddenly whisked off to boarding school . |
| 4 | Then she was whisked off to lunch at the clubhouse . |
| 5 | Hers was a brave effort for one who had to be whisked off to hospital on Tuesday after a painful accident . |
| 6 | This is a genuine surgical emergency if it occurs and the unfortunate victim has to be whisked off to hospital . |
| 7 | Scott , who plays surf-mad Brad Willis , recently dashed off to Bali for a surfing holiday with his pals . |
| 8 | To facilitate the mass launch , most of Wasp 's Wildcats had to be flown off to loiter overhead . |
| 9 | The bus was cosy and , as I stood dangling from a strap with the other excess passengers , someone asked the driver if Hampstead Road was still closed off to traffic going north . |
| 10 | They are frequently hauled off to prison and treated very badly , beaten and insulted , at times , even raped . |
| 11 | Marianne swayed provocatively towards them , her lush figure and endless legs shown off to perfection in a body-hugging mini-dress . |
| 12 | Despite his boasts of political eminence in England , the Leader of the British National Socialist Party had a dread of being bundled off to internment in Silesia as an undesirable alien . |
| 13 | Hundreds of thousands had died in the post-war 'flu epidemic , so anyone who caught it — especially children — was bundled off to bed , as Clare was , with a hot water bottle , some aspirin , and a glass of hot milk with an eggspoonful of whisky in it . |
| 14 | She looked after some children in their last year before they were packed off to boarding school . |
| 15 | When young Thomas Carter returned from his duties about 10.00 , he was given bread and cheese for his lunch , and was Packed off to school with his brother . |
| 16 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 17 | ‘ This time an X-ray revealed the damage and I was packed off to hospital for surgery . ’ |
| 18 | At last he was packed off to sub-division : held for questioning . |
| 19 | His broad shoulders and powerful legs were set off to perfection by the excellent cut , while a snow-white silk shirt emphasised his tanned , rugged face . |
| 20 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
| 21 | FIVE cool businessmen stumbled from the wreckage of their crashed plane … and smartly stepped off to work . |
| 22 | Nina Rozanov , tired , had gone off to bed . |
| 23 | The next morning , after Master had gone off to school for the day , Sergeant decided to pay a visit to Riverbank to see his new friend Anabelle Hedgehog . |
| 24 | They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children . |
| 25 | Perhaps she would learn a little more from them when Harry had gone off to sea again , an event she had learnt , over the years , to look forward to . |
| 26 | She did n't like it when Dot slipped in unseen and with Mr Brown gone off to college , she had n't so many people who would listen to her . |
| 27 | The scene closed with judge and prisoner bowing solemnly to one another , and the latter , after spending half an hour discoursing with his supporters in the courtroom , being led off to prison wreathed in smiles . |
| 28 | He remembers before especially some idiot handing him a photo of his friend Jochen Rindt 's grave through the window of his car , and he remembers after , the sound of a chopper as he 's wafted off to hospital , but not the accident itself . |
| 29 | ‘ The next thing I remember was being taken off to hospital . |
| 30 | Their parents had been taken off to detainee camps , and they were lonely and desolate . |