Example sentences of "[verb] off to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 2 | The devout and those with a full itinerary hurry off to the Abbey as the bell tolls for communion . |
| 3 | Two clipped young Gurkhas peel off to the side as the Queen stands before the two great thrones , flanked by a clutch of Yeomen of the Guard , pikes resting on their shoulders . |
| 4 | Despite this , many pet cats are carried off to the vet by exasperated owners for this type of ‘ convenience surgery ’ . |
| 5 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 6 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 7 | In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink . |
| 8 | Tony and I drag our boats up the beach and head off to the rocks , our balance oddly disturbed by the many hours afloat . |
| 9 | ‘ Especially when they see you getting into your Porsche , and driving off to the flat you own in Putney ? ’ |
| 10 | The sound of wheels turned in her ears again as she thought of Maman driving off to the railway station as if on some brisk pursuit . |
| 11 | I 'm not allowed to go jetting off to the Caribbean , that 's all . |
| 12 | NURSES from South Tees are jetting off to the U.S. this month to find out about baby care , American style . |
| 13 | That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States . |
| 14 | Everyone wished each other good luck and Mould , Matron and Endill headed off to the library . |
| 15 | In the car we bounded off to the reception at AMS , or Associated Medical Services , on Route 6 . |
| 16 | It was as a result of the Russian advance across the Urals that many Mansis and Khantys moved away from their homes , the latter crossing the Ob into the middle part of its basin , while some of the Selkups who had lived on the Ob , as well as Kets on the Yenisei , moved off to the north . |
| 17 | I chatted with her while I weighed the potatoes , then I moved off to the wines and spirits section . |
| 18 | But even as she was unslinging her canvas bag , so the group moved off to the lifts again . |
| 19 | I moved off to the PGA caravan to have words with Sally about our tentative arrangement for dinner at her flat . |
| 20 | He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right . |
| 21 | So they collected their actors and actresses , a film crew of twelve and their livestock and moved off to the Utah desert to begin filming . |
| 22 | Mrs Archer told her that apart from three vacant rooms ‘ for the tourism ’ , all the others were let off to the council , who put homeless people into them . |
| 23 | Having admired the kingly tomb and added the name ‘ O'Connor ’ to my list of families who might accept the Irish throne , I wandered off to the Abbey Hotel . |
| 24 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 25 | Tommy wandered off to the cookhouse tent and returned half an hour later with two hot cocoas and two dry biscuits . |
| 26 | For whole days he wandered off to the cafés and bars in a stand to assert his independence . |
| 27 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 28 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 29 | She ran , jumped on her girlfriend 's motorbike and they roared off to the house in the middle of the ricefields where they were staying , the bike slewing around in panic . |
| 30 | When Dr Solomon is happy that he 's got your ailment sussed , you 're whisked off to the diseases database . |