Example sentences of "[vb past] off to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 2 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 3 | Another short blast and the school moved off to the various classrooms . |
| 4 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 5 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 6 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm here , ’ she screamed , and digging her heels into Hermia , went straight into a gallop towards the helicopter , followed by 199 yelling Pony Club members , who fortunately veered off to the left , and did n't trample the new arrivals to death . |
| 8 | Across the nation aristocratic backwoodsmen , a tribe previously thought to be on the verge of extinction , tottered off to the nearest railway station to obey the summons . |
| 9 | The European champions got off to the best possible start when the full-back Graeme Rutjes headed them into the lead after 12 minutes . |
| 10 | Abingdon got off to the best possible start when the live wire , Liam Herbert latched on to a ball in the penalty area , only to be brought down by Egham keeper , Paul Allis in the second minute . |
| 11 | The Israeli-Syrian track got off to the fastest start last year , when the new Rabin government promised to trade at least some of the Golan Heights for peace . |
| 12 | ALLAN Lamb 's day got off to the worst possible start as flooding in London forced a quick change of travel plans . |
| 13 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |
| 14 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 15 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 16 | A farm track led off to the left opposite , flanked by deep drainage ditches . |
| 17 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 18 | Moore , he rocketed off to the very opposite of metaphysical extremes . |
| 19 | The three players walked off to the next tee . |
| 20 | Everyone in London was wondering why Guy left his fiancée on her own , and flew off to the Caribbean on the spur of the moment … ’ |
| 21 | After the furriers we all trooped off to the same dentist who X-rayed our teeth which was unusual in Britain then . |
| 22 | Now there 's a little piece , can I mention a little piece in the local thing , there 's a little press release here which Robert produced and sent off to the local newspaper . |
| 23 | Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead . |
| 24 | Get up with Mum , have a coffee with her before she went off to the early shift , lay the table , shout up to the little ones to get up or else , put the bacon on the grill , put the beans in the pan , butter the bread , boil the kettle . |
| 25 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 26 | His restless spirit could not settle to his legal studies and in 1809 , having obtained a commission from a merchant company to act as their agent and establish trade agreements , he went off to the Mediterranean area . |
| 27 | Eventually a few candles were lit , the band started playing , the couples uncoupled and went off to the back room , and the party went on . |
| 28 | Much of Piffetti 's work is still to be found in the royal palaces of Turin , but several superb pieces , including two exquisite pedestals , drifted off to the Quirinal in Rome , and an altar-frontal of unbelievable complexity is in the Vatican . |
| 29 | You 've never heard a speed-thrash organ pop LP called ‘ Life ’ , never experienced ‘ The Beast Inside ’ 's prog rock excesses and never drifted off to the gorgeous pop of ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , fuck you ! ’ shouted Martin , and stomped off to the spare room . |