Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] off to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the hours they had set aside for practising , such girls are whisked off to Neiman-Marcus , where they are instructed on the difference between Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene with a degree of rigour reminiscent of their earliest scale-drumming days . |
| 2 | Their influence is such that during the stalking season vast areas of Scotland are closed off to hillwalkers . |
| 3 | Another source of unwelcome attention came from agency reports of a rumour that the Iraqi president 's family had been packed off to Algeria or Mauritania for the duration of the war . |
| 4 | The Lockwood Parish Map created by a band of workers over several years in East Cleveland has been packed off to Milton Keynes where it will be on display when the Queen commemorates the 25th anniversary of the new town on March 13 . |
| 5 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
| 6 | To facilitate the mass launch , most of Wasp 's Wildcats had to be flown off to loiter overhead . |
| 7 | God , how I used to envy the Catholic girls going to the schools in Belfast when I was waiting at the bus stop like a fresh dog 's dinner to be carried off to Dothegirls Academy in me big grey interlocks with double gusset for the hockey stains . |
| 8 | Hers was a brave effort for one who had to be whisked off to hospital on Tuesday after a painful accident . |
| 9 | This is a genuine surgical emergency if it occurs and the unfortunate victim has to be whisked off to hospital . |
| 10 | Allow myself to be spirited off to Germany where I assassinate Hitler at the first opportunity ? ’ |
| 11 | His own situation as a tame hermit to be shown off to guests by the lady of the house can hardly have suited him . |
| 12 | The land we have to take from Russia , whether she is willing or not , must be large enough to allow us to resettle , in Bessarabia or northwest of there , all the Rumanians now living in Austria and Turkey ( minus Rumanian Jews , who together with those of Poland , Russia and Austria , should be packed off to Palestine , or better yet , to Madagascar ) … |
| 13 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
| 14 | A third alternative , proposed by Demsetz ( 1968 ) , is for the rights to supply to be auctioned off to bidders whose bids would be in the form of a contract to supply at a given price ( rather like bids for the construction of a motorway ) . |
| 15 | As the President of a leading textile firm put it ‘ When the ship is about to be wrecked heavier cargoes should be thrown off to sea ’ ( quoted in Tsuda 1980 p.2 ) . |
| 16 | I had to be carted off to hospital , so I did n't manage to complete the work until the new year . |
| 17 | I had to be carted off to hospital , so I did n't manage to complete the work until the new year . |
| 18 | As a result , half of the Saimaa Canal , which links the Gulf of Finland with Lake Saimaa ( Finland 's largest lake system ) , fell into Soviet hands and has since been cut off to yachts wishing to enter from the Baltic Sea . |
| 19 | ‘ The lap-top turned out to belong to the Admiral , so it 's been taken off to Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and all that while they analyse the contents of the disk . |
| 20 | Their parents had been taken off to detainee camps , and they were lonely and desolate . |
| 21 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 22 | THE 24-year-old Donegal man who underwent a kidney transplant after being whisked off to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin minutes before he was due to go on stage at the City of Derry Drama Festival was today said to be ‘ doing very well . ’ |
| 23 | George had told him in private the reason for Sarah Butler being packed off to Leeds , and he had realised then that her infatuation for George was an obsession . |
| 24 | At the end of the EFL training course I did in London , a British Council type gave us all a pep talk before we were packed off to Ankara or Kuala Lumpur . |
| 25 | She looked after some children in their last year before they were packed off to boarding school . |
| 26 | Accordingly , leaders of the Jewish community were packed off to Vienna to receive first-hand information on organising mass emigration , though how anyone could think of forcing thousands of destitutes over the border — . |
| 27 | Despite his boasts of political eminence in England , the Leader of the British National Socialist Party had a dread of being bundled off to internment in Silesia as an undesirable alien . |
| 28 | His broad shoulders and powerful legs were set off to perfection by the excellent cut , while a snow-white silk shirt emphasised his tanned , rugged face . |
| 29 | Mortimer and Isabella were hurried off to London and arraigned before parliament in November . |
| 30 | The scene closed with judge and prisoner bowing solemnly to one another , and the latter , after spending half an hour discoursing with his supporters in the courtroom , being led off to prison wreathed in smiles . |