Example sentences of "be [vb pp] 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 | General seismic and other expenditures not connected with a specific exploration licence are written off to the profit and loss account immediately . |
| 4 | When Dr Solomon is happy that he 's got your ailment sussed , you 're whisked off to the diseases database . |
| 5 | It 's about the only thing that has n't been sold off to the Japanese — yet . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Costs which do not qualify as issue costs should be written off to the profit and loss account as incurred . |
| 8 | The SORP requires that advances should be written off to the extent that it appears there is no realistic prospect of recovery . |
| 9 | They could then be sold off to the tune of a hundred million pounds to pay off debts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most staff return to the area office in mid-afternoon with samples to be sent off to the laboratory . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has to be sent off to the Department of Health on the fourteenth of this month . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | These are rounded off to the nearest number of complete bars . ) |
| 17 | The prospect of a restart has now been put off to the end of the year . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 23 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 24 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Kitching works were sold off to the S&DR and in 1860 Alfred handed over the Lister works to his cousin , Charles Ianson . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Class 313s continued to look after the inner suburban system , and the now non-standard 1977-series Class 312s were packed off to the Colchester line . |
| 29 | Most of the RCM internees were packed off to the Isle of Man , a late addition to the list of camps drawn up by the War Office in 1939 . |
| 30 | 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 . |