Example sentences of "[vb pp] off to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Responsibility for various specific public services is hived off to a range of special agencies , though in each case ultimate responsibility for policy lies with one of the central departments . |
2 | Her husband , who has been ill recently , was hustled off to a chair in the corner . |
3 | You will be whisked off to a photographer 's studio for a photo session where a top hairdresser , make-up artist and fashion stylist will be waiting to give you a fabulous makeover . |
4 | One minute the firm was having a few financial problems and hoping for some helpful investment advice , the next their premises were sold off to a factory development corporation , their directors sacked , the workforce were redundant . |
5 | They are hauled off to a depot , to await their turn to be processed . |
6 | Ticket sales for this year 's Ryedale Festival have got off to a record start with more than £16,000 netted in the first three weeks and some events are already sold out , says director Geoffrey Emmerson . |
7 | Miller 's career in management had got off to a whirlwind start . |
8 | ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage . |
9 | Subservience was expected by all levels of employer , titled or otherwise , and Marie Thwaites was one of a number of young men and women who were packed off to a life which was not only unacceptable by today 's standards , but hardly believable . |
10 | I was only able to come because all the men have gone off to a meeting with Romanies from other camps . |
11 | Meanwhile Giovanna 's immense husband had waddled off to a patch of rough grass in which he hunted until he found a small metal square . |
12 | A little boy had been sent off to a birthday party all dressed up in his best clothes and clutching a present for his school friend . |
13 | Ten thousand square feet in the rebuilt south-east corner will be rented off to a tenant . |