Example sentences of "[was/were] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RSM brought everyone to attention , ‘ By the right , quick march , ’ barked the Officer and we were off to a jaunty 6–8 time , Blue Bonnets Over the Border , as I got under way . |
| 2 | As far as they knew , these 570 people were off to a temperance rally at Loughborough ; most of them were probably unaware that they were taking part in an historical journey — Thomas Cook 's first excursion in 1841 . |
| 3 | I put on my kilt , picked up my bagpipes , clambered aboard the truck , and we were off to the beach . |
| 4 | ‘ Carter was the first guy I sat down with to discuss this thing ’ , he told The Art Newspaper , ‘ and as soon as I did , we were off to the races ’ . |
| 5 | However , within a few overs of the start , we were off to the newsroom , and cries of disbelief were audible from living-rooms all around the country . |
| 6 | So we were off to the races . |
| 7 | They were off to the Nile to seek a new life , |
| 8 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 9 | Then they were off with a loud revving of the engine . |
| 10 | They were off on a collision course with the beaten snow , their equipment and one another . |
| 11 | And when I confessed the other day in the King 's Head that we were off on a trip to Dartington , there were cynical smiles . |
| 12 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 13 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 14 | Then we were off down the hill . |
| 15 | Cos it said they were off between the airport and where was it , Central |
| 16 | Next day we were off in the train to Bath . |
| 17 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 18 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 19 | The lights were off in the living-room , but the television was on and I was amused to see a little bluish-grey man talking seriously to the empty armchairs . |
| 20 | All through the week they gathered waiting for someone to pop his or her head round the entrance and shout that there was an audition , and they were off like a shot , their audition clothes naturally packed in a case by their table . |
| 21 | And with that he reined the mare 's head about and was off down the lane , brandishing the crop , significantly , above his shoulder . |
| 22 | The breed in Sweden was off to a tremendous start and from this position of strength , Swedish people have produced over the years some very good Rottweilers . |
| 23 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 24 | The Health Secretary was off to a private party . |
| 25 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc chief Jerry Sanders is not at all phased by Intel Corp 's excoriation and he told the conference his company was off to a good start for another year of record revenues , with a target of $1,650m in 1993 , $2,000m in 1994 and $3,000m by 1997 , and expects to ship 4m Am486 chips in 1994 for a 15% market share . |
| 26 | So it was off to a wet and windy Heathrow Airport , a BA Super Shuttle to Glasgow , and a twenty minute road journey to the factory . |
| 27 | So it was off to a wet and windy Heathrow Airport , a BA Super Shuttle to Glasgow , and a twenty minute road journey to the factory . |
| 28 | Now he was off to a nine p.m. to one a.m . |
| 29 | After the show had ended , the black Cizeta on display was off to the company 's first client in Singapore , who 'll be $630,000 lighter for the privilege of owning the world 's only V16-engined production car . |
| 30 | In 1973 Kylie was off to the local school , Camberwell primary . |