Example sentences of "[vb pp] off to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this , many pet cats are carried off to the vet by exasperated owners for this type of ‘ convenience surgery ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 6 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 7 | Costs which do not qualify as issue costs should be written off to the profit and loss account as incurred . |
| 8 | General seismic and other expenditures not connected with a specific exploration licence are written off to the profit and loss account immediately . |
| 9 | Advance corporation tax not recoverable against the mainstream corporation tax liability for the current or previous years is written off to the profit and loss account unless its future recovery can be foreseen . |
| 10 | All expenditure on research and development including the cost of patents and trade marks is written off to the profit and loss account in the year in which it is incurred . |
| 11 | The SORP requires that advances should be written off to the extent that it appears there is no realistic prospect of recovery . |
| 12 | In the consolidated p&l account , the gain is nil — the difference between the proceeds of £2.1m less the fair value of the assets of £1.8m plus the goodwill of £0.3m , previously written off to the merger reserve . |
| 13 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |
| 14 | From Caniço we go back up onto the main airport road and continue on to Santa Cruz ( 20km ) , whose centre is situated off to the right of the main road . |
| 15 | The Respiratory Quotient ( R.Q. ) of an organism is the ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide given off to the volume of oxygen absorbed during respiration . |
| 16 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 17 | The surplus population of England , especially that of the Home Counties and the Midlands , was siphoned off to the capital . |
| 18 | They could then be sold off to the tune of a hundred million pounds to pay off debts . |
| 19 | Many ofthe 2.5 million rivets have been renewed , and parts of the ironwork have been replaced in recent years-authenticated chunks of the original were sold off to the public as highly-priced souvenirs . |
| 20 | It 's about the only thing that has n't been sold off to the Japanese — yet . ’ |
| 21 | To protect the scene , the park was closed off to the public for much of the day but has since been re-opened . |
| 22 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |
| 23 | Adds Murray : ‘ I was hauled off to the station but allowed to go after agreeing to pay for the damage . ’ |
| 24 | One of the first two out had peeled off to the left towards the Orchard . |
| 25 | I shook my head , and she smiled and nodded and patted me on the shoulder and padded off to the kitchen . |
| 26 | I 'd heard most of the words that ‘ Jaz ’ used to express his feelings at his misfortune ; the Head 's wife had n't , apparently , since ‘ Jaz ’ was immediately dragged off to the Head 's office to ‘ explain himself ’ . |
| 27 | We are being swept off to the right , towards a giant chunk of basalt in the river , and despite Sam 's frenzied efforts at the oars , we bounce into it . |
| 28 | ‘ If Harry had n't been rushed off to the hospital with chest pains today , ’ he continued , ‘ then I 'd still be at a loss as to know what my only daughter gets up to when my back is turned . ’ |
| 29 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 30 | Eventually , when the howling had subsided and the jackals had sloped off to the forest , the dogs would come back in , or they 'd wander off into the frosty night and not return until morning . |