Example sentences of "[was/were] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace .
2 In 1973 Kylie was off to the local school , Camberwell primary .
3 Each evening he was off to the local pub The Royal Oak where he apparently became the life and soul of the party .
4 In the evening it was off to the Scottish Crofters Union Annual Dinner .
5 As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion .
6 I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment !
7 The main consideration in gaining a clear conscience is that we work out the wording carefully in advance as the prodigal son did when he was off in the far country .
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