Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] off to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Messengers were sent off to sympathetic neighbours , and , amongst them , Hugh Woodburn of Loudoun Mains sent his younger brother , George , to ask John Nisbet of Hardhill to come with all haste . |
| 2 | We tried to work the system , but at times of intensive spraying operations we were asked reduce our area of notification as large areas of the country were blanketed off to military operations . |
| 3 | So she was packed off to bloody England and came back with an Englishman . |
| 4 | We were always hidden away somewhere , I was packed off to various boarding-schools , he gave us piles of money , he just did n't want to see us ! |
| 5 | When his bastard turned out to be studious , the boy was accepted into the English bachelor 's house for a short time before he was shipped off to prep school and public school in his father 's country . |
| 6 | The third reason why Dzerzhinsky was sent off to distant Siberia was purely political , and had little to do with the railways . |