Example sentences of "[was/were] off to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bunny and he were off to Midnight Mass . |
| 2 | ‘ Time we were off to bed . ’ |
| 3 | All too soon Emily was off to school , and Pippa had flown home again . |
| 4 | A few days later , he was off to south London , where he concentrated on the subject of deserts — his speciality . |
| 5 | At which moment , the Editor , a young man from Glasgow , who seemed to bear on his narrow shoulders guilt for all the sins of the Western world , emerged from his office and was off to lunch with a left-wing Labour M.P . |
| 6 | Anyway , he disappeared soon after you left — told Stella he 'd had a heavy day and was off to bed with a book . |
| 7 | ‘ Dr Jones asked me to tell you he was off to tea . |