Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] off to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 2 | As Armstrong was riding homewards along the river bank at the end of the session , a group of English horsemen set off in pursuit , captured him , and bore him off to imprisonment in Carlisle castle . |
| 3 | Mum went over to him and delivered a hard slap then ordered him off to bed . |
| 4 | Mrs Fraser once packed me off to bed as I was groggy with summer flu , and the four lads with me were sent off to do Ben Tee on their own — a perfect challenge for their particular hill experience at the time . |
| 5 | Well , I just told Ruth not to be a silly girl and got him off to Nurse . |
| 6 | I took this bandage off and put a cold compress on , making a proper patella dressing , got the ambulance and got him off to hospital , and put in a Report about this broken gas-lid . |
| 7 | Sara seldom saw him off to work . |
| 8 | Item that Richard Curteys of Battle … entered the liberty of this lordship and made an assult on Richard Knyght against the peace by night ; and with a strong hand , with force and arms , to wit , with swords , bows and arrows , they unjustly took him outside the aforesaid lordship and carried him off to Battle , within the liberty and town of the abbot of Battle , against the peace . |
| 9 | Bedelia said as she bustled us off to bed . |