Example sentences of "be [verb] off to the " 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 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 3 | NURSES from South Tees are jetting off to the U.S. this month to find out about baby care , American style . |
| 4 | General seismic and other expenditures not connected with a specific exploration licence are written off to the profit and loss account immediately . |
| 5 | When Dr Solomon is happy that he 's got your ailment sussed , you 're whisked off to the diseases database . |
| 6 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 7 | It 's about the only thing that has n't been sold off to the Japanese — yet . ’ |
| 8 | He and his wife Alexandra are heading off to the sun and fun of Mauritius where he will head up English television and radio news for the local broadcasting corporation . |
| 9 | That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets . |
| 11 | Costs which do not qualify as issue costs should be written off to the profit and loss account as incurred . |
| 12 | The SORP requires that advances should be written off to the extent that it appears there is no realistic prospect of recovery . |
| 13 | They could then be sold off to the tune of a hundred million pounds to pay off debts . |
| 14 | And the self same people who shake their heads and utter these remarks are the ones who will be heading off to the Med or Florida on their holidays next year , doubtless piloted there by someone up front who began his or her career on a little grass strip flying those little aeroplanes that look so flimsy . |
| 15 | " Everybody seems to be going off to the wedding-breakfast . |
| 16 | Also on the competition front one lucky reader will be flying off to the sunny Bahamas for her honeymoon — so hurry up and enter , it might just be you ! |
| 17 | A sample of urine is usually needed either for simple testing in the clinic or to be sent off to the laboratory for more sophisticated tests . |
| 18 | Mr Annan 's idea is that these planners — civilians as well as military men — should not remain on their bottoms in New York but should be sent off to the field to implement the operations they planned . |
| 19 | Most staff return to the area office in mid-afternoon with samples to be sent off to the laboratory . |
| 20 | Well it will be sent off to the Secretary of State in theory he has twenty one days in practice I suspect it will be mid-January at least before we learn . |
| 21 | It has to be sent off to the Department of Health on the fourteenth of this month . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | These are rounded off to the nearest number of complete bars . ) |
| 24 | The prospect of a restart has now been put off to the end of the year . |
| 25 | But if we create a psychology in this country where to the men and women who earn the crust upon which we depend , our business community , are switched off to the significance of Europe , there 's only one people who 'll suffer and it is us . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 30 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |