Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I stopped off to do a bit of shopping , cash in Betty Y 's prescription et cetera . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one . |
| 3 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 4 | ‘ But some of the young people in the bar explained and I rushed off to get a camera . ’ |
| 5 | I rushed off to have a shave and a wash , which I had hardly finished doing before we were ordered downstairs for breakfast in the darkness . |
| 6 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 7 | After we 'd satisfied ourselves that there was sufficient prey I went off to walk the terrain . |
| 8 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 9 | He ordered Sergeant Yates to take the bulk of the party to the rendezvous , while he himself set off to reconnoitre the escarpment with Sergeant Tait . |
| 10 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 11 | Having delivered this Parthian shot , she stalked off to find a taxi home . |
| 12 | She trips off to view the fashion show . |
| 13 | Lalu falls in love with mule skinner Jim ( a rather lacklustre Dennis Dun ) , who lopes off to raise the readies to buy her from slimy Hong King ( Michael Paul Chan ) leaving her in the care of his friend Charlie Bemis ( Chris Cooper ) , a compassionate but cowardly Yankee with a booze problem . |
| 14 | She broke off to acknowledge an old man trudging by : ‘ Good day to you , Mr Ivey ! |
| 15 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 16 | With a friendly pat on his arm , she went off to join the dancing , and practically walked into the waiting Feargal . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ Kitty continued , ‘ all those years in that heat then she walks off to see the summer-house and would n't take a cardigan . |
| 18 | I shouted — to the men , who romped off to explore the premises , and to lay out some trinkets , and some food , some bread and tomatoes , say , as was traditional , for the Jews ' later use . |
| 19 | Joanna 's depression vanished immediately and she set off to do the shopping in high spirits while Sophie , equally elated , went to the surgery . |
| 20 | She set off to find a lift . |
| 21 | ‘ She said she thought Dick and Joy had forgotten they were to pick her up , so she set off to catch the bus . ’ |
| 22 | She set off to walk a mile to the mountain cable car on Wednesday . |
| 23 | We tricoteuses of the press who set off to crisscross the country with Mr Major in his campaign plane and bus , many packed lunches ago , accompanied a diffident , decent figure presented in a soft-sell promotional film as a man with whom ordinary people could identify . |
| 24 | Millions of pounds spent on satellite technology is wasted when people like me ignore Michael Fish yelling on television from behind some sandbags , ‘ For God 's sake take cover ! ’ as we set off to claim a Munro with a song in our hearts . |
| 25 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 26 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |
| 27 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 28 | ‘ Therese does n't want him to go off to paint the Belgian ambassador 's wife . ’ |
| 29 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 30 | Then they went off to rout the Scottish and Royalist forces . |