Example sentences of "it [be] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | When they are supposed to be arguing about the rider or scrawling their name on the walls , they sit quietly down and start replying to fan letters , or in Solowka 's case , it 's off with the flat-cap and out with the calculator . |
2 | At the first change over it 's off with the shoes and on with the safety helmet . |
3 | So it 's off with the number plates … forget next month 's world championships … here comes the thrill of the open road . |
4 | A quick dust , to get rid of the cobwebs , and it 's off to the track , adrenalin pumping , because that time has come for the first track workout of the summer . |
5 | For rock it 's off to the beach — in our case probably Skegness which carries a wide variety of large pebbles of many geological types . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Then it 's off to the library , a detailed study of perhaps just one book and your heroine could be a sufficiently convincing expert . |
8 | Bumpety , bump and it 's off to the dump , I hum inside my head . |
9 | Once this skill is mastered it 's off to the hills to put all the theory to test in local gold-bearing streams . |
10 | Next day , it 's off to the supermarket to catch up with the shopping — do n't forget the newborn-size nappies ! |
11 | Once that 's done , it 's off to the software setup . |
12 | Though he 's handed down management of the firm to his daughter Margaret , Cyril still spends each morning making sandwiches at the back of the shop … then it 's off to the bakery in nearby Wanborough in the afternoon . |
13 | So after a last minute practise session on the open road it 's off to the Aylesbury test centre … no chequered flag in prospect but the possible thrill of discarding those rather embarassing Learner plates for the world 's best . |
14 | You half expect their quiet moments to be a mere ‘ quiet before the storm ’ intro to some Metallica prog-thrash epic about hellspawn putrefaction , but then they meander into Sonic Youth discordant territory , then suddenly it 's walls of sonic bliss , then it 's off into a sample-aided , arse-quaking , ‘ Die asshole muthaf—er ’ industrial rant , then some tedious feedback wanking then … erm , that 's it . |
15 | Afghans recruited that morning at the market unload the bales … then it 's off into the night . |
16 | And it 's off through the directories now . |
17 | ‘ Sometimes it does get me down , but I get over that and then it is off to the next place . ’ |
18 | Town jobs are easier and make more money , so it is off to the north and let the country go hang . |
19 | I have got to the stage where I totally dislike them , so it is off to the opticians next week . |
20 | In the case of the British , it was off with the cricket sweater and down to your marks . |
21 | How , after such an accident , its limbs managed any speed at all was a miracle , but it was off at a pace that Marlin could n't hope to match . |
22 | So it was off to a wet and windy Heathrow Airport , a BA Super Shuttle to Glasgow , and a twenty minute road journey to the factory . |
23 | So it was off to a wet and windy Heathrow Airport , a BA Super Shuttle to Glasgow , and a twenty minute road journey to the factory . |
24 | So it was off to the department stores of central London with a LASMO cheque to kit himself out with warm and waterproof clothes as a matter of some urgency . |
25 | In the evening it was off to the Scottish Crofters Union Annual Dinner . |