Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] off to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 2 | I 'm not allowed to go jetting off to the Caribbean , that 's all . |
| 3 | Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide . |
| 4 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 5 | I sat in the road during a demonstration and got hauled off to the police station in Newbury . |
| 6 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 7 | Alex because she has n't wa ma although mother 's been up erm , nanny always gets shot off to the erm the home and she has n't actually seen her . |
| 8 | It also suits the fans likewise , who quite like to pop off to the cricket after lunch , and who also might like to travel to away league matches without having to leave before dawn to see the first ball bowled . |
| 9 | I would have to go off to the lavatory , come back and start the same scene with a variation . |
| 10 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 11 | But once Pietro started sounding off to the press they had to stand by you to avoid charges of bowing to pressure . ’ |
| 12 | The vehicles started to move off to the washdown point and thence to the trains that would take them home . |
| 13 | But you do n't have to rush off to the other extreme . |
| 14 | After the burial , Corbett sent the equally frightened Ranulf off to the castle , reassuring him that all would be well and authorising him to seek an audience with Bishop Wishart . |
| 15 | But before you go rushing off to the river to catch a netful of chub , bear in mind that I have said only that chub are easy to catch compared to most other species . |
| 16 | I 've thought about it but erm it 's another one of those things I , I guess I keep putting off to the er a little bit later . |
| 17 | The S that Ford chose to show off to the press was understandably a fully loaded one . |
| 18 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 19 | No , he 'd scarper , and leave me to get hauled off to the nearest loony-bin . |
| 20 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 21 | I have to go round to the wife of a man — a man ! my best friend ! — whom I have just left trogging off to the tube station ; I have to go round to his wife of six weeks and tell her I love her . |
| 22 | In a cross wind it almost always pays to turn off to the down wind side first . |
| 23 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |
| 24 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 25 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 26 | One of the first two out had peeled off to the left towards the Orchard . |
| 27 | Eventually , when the howling had subsided and the jackals had sloped off to the forest , the dogs would come back in , or they 'd wander off into the frosty night and not return until morning . |
| 28 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 29 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 30 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |