Example sentences of "[verb] off [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 2 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 3 | In time , Keating shuffled off to spectate for a rival weekly but , as a kindly man , he offered encouragement to his successor . |
| 4 | She waited for a moment and then walked off to stand in a different part of the ship . |
| 5 | Skim over the coast of Hawaii in a glider , roar across Arizona with the US Navy 's Blue Angels and lift off to space in a Saturn V rocket . |
| 6 | Germany was not only humbled but humiliated , yet the Kaiser was swept off to exile in a train twenty carriages long followed by a cavalcade of twelve motor cars . |
| 7 | Research and development expenditure is being focused predominantly on the BS2000 family of mainframes , and systems integration activities will be split off to operate as a separate business unit , he said . |
| 8 | The poodle people said you 'd thrown everything up and gone off to live in a shack in the country … |
| 9 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 10 | On the day of his first marriage , his wife went off to perform in a matinée and Burton listened to the International match . |
| 11 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |