Example sentences of "he [verb] off to the " in BNC.
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1 | For whole days he wandered off to the cafés and bars in a stand to assert his independence . |
2 | He strolled off to the surgery , Matey still fussing about him . |
3 | Moore , he rocketed off to the very opposite of metaphysical extremes . |
4 | And then he rushed off to the bathroom and started throwing up . ’ |
5 | Found a tune , he took up his pen and he wrote some words , and according to the story , according to the legend , the next day at day-break , he rushed off to the Mayor Dietrich , and was able to say , I have done it . |
6 | Fixing me with an indignant eye , he scuttled off to the peonies . |
7 | He blushed , raised his cap and pretended not to hear the compliment , as he dashed off to the baker 's shop . |
8 | He swans off to the room whilst I wrestle with yards of umbilical elastic intestine , and hard cyst-like sacs which remain as elusive as end snippets of soap . |
9 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
10 | I was about five when Dad started taking me with him when he went off to the allotment and I remember how , on a Wednesday evening , we went to Johnny Lampard 's yard in Exeter Street . |
11 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |
12 | Shortly afterwards , he went off to the Demob Centre and I left dismally on my last posting to Scampton . |
13 | His restless spirit could not settle to his legal studies and in 1809 , having obtained a commission from a merchant company to act as their agent and establish trade agreements , he went off to the Mediterranean area . |
14 | But she maintained that he went off to the Supersight factory with Brian Harley for several days . |
15 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
16 | He went off to the kitchen , leaving Leonora apprehensive about the rest of the evening . |
17 | He went off to the kitchen and returned with a carrier-bag . |
18 | I see so there would be if he was this would be at the end when you know this was n't he did n't ever do anything like that before he went off to the w w during the war ? |
19 | He went off to the erm blooming |
20 | And with the usual loud-mouthed flourish he marched off to the lavatory taking my book with him . |
21 | As a preliminary , he shot off to the telephone and dialled the Southend Lubianka where the Access bills are processed . |
22 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |