Example sentences of "been [verb] off to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 2 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 3 | It 's about the only thing that has n't been sold off to the Japanese — yet . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The prospect of a restart has now been put off to the end of the year . |
| 6 | He had married Audrey , and had been sent off to the Aleutian Islands for an anti-Jap campaign before being demobbed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid he 's been sent off to the railway , sir . |