Example sentences of "off to boarding [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 2 | She looked after some children in their last year before they were packed off to boarding school . |
| 3 | He said the English were fine ones to bang on about cruelty when they sent little boys off to boarding school when they were eight . |
| 4 | Willie had already helped paint the scenery but had been asked to take over as prompter when Matthew Browne had been suddenly whisked off to boarding school . |
| 5 | And now she 's seen Prince Harry safely off to boarding school , she 's asking for more . |
| 6 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 7 | When he failed to get in to Merchant Taylors , Iain was sent off to boarding school in Bishop 's Stortford . |
| 8 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |