Example sentences of "off to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , fuck you ! ’ shouted Martin , and stomped off to the spare room . |
| 2 | Before lining up for the first race of the season it 's off to the now-standard bits-and-bobs shop , where you can spend up to $100,000 upgrading your jalopy . |
| 3 | It would then whoosh straight off to the central cashiers ' office . |
| 4 | Last term 's fund-raising efforts have now raised £1,048 for the Leukaemia Research Fund — and two sacks of old postage stamps have been sent off to the Blue Peter Appeal in aid of Romanian children . |
| 5 | A crash of musketry off to the right flank betrayed that the farms to the west were under attack , but here in the centre , where the road led enticingly to the crossroads , the enemy was still hidden . |
| 6 | If you have practised all the new skills available to you with the K858 , you could , at this stage , create a garment combining a selection of textures that all go well together , choosing from Fair Isle , lace and cables and placing them to set each other off to the best advantage . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think that quite sets it off to the best advantage , sir . ’ |
| 8 | Another short blast and the school moved off to the various classrooms . |
| 9 | And then we 've got the young cattle off to the two places on the other side of the island and then the third place at just last year . |
| 10 | But you do n't have to rush off to the other extreme . |
| 11 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 12 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 13 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 14 | ‘ You take off to the other side of the world to get a clearer perspective on what 's happening here , right ? |
| 15 | Four steps backwards — another curtsey and off to the other side where officials put the medal in a box and took back the hook ! |
| 16 | So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King . |
| 17 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 18 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 19 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 20 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 21 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , rather than barring production above current levels of , say , asbestos at each plant throughout the nation , a ceiling on national production could be imposed with the rights to manufacture within the total being auctioned off to the highest bidders . |
| 23 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 24 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 25 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 26 | Rated third in the supercomputer market with a significant 16% stake acclaimed to it , AMT 's aim to provide affordable supercomputing systems seemingly paid off to the outside world . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm surprised you have n't had the window-frame shipped off to the Black Museum . ’ |
| 28 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
| 29 | The Bush Administration sent the whole issue off to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in December last year . |
| 30 | FAST-MOVING comic-strip spoof on US life and politics , Phoenix Beam 's cult American Eagle lands at Willesden Green Library Centre , 95 High Road , London NW10 ( tel : 01 451 0294 ) , December 15-16 , before zooming off to the Lyric Theatre , Hammersmith ( 01 641 2311 ) , with open workshops and signed performances for the deaf , Dec 19-Jan 13 . |