Example sentences of "is off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is off on a stravaig past Atholl , looking for cheap horses . |
| 2 | HELEN THOMAS IS OFF ON A GLObetrot next year — she has been selected to take part in an Operation Raleigh exercise and Guinness has agreed to contribute towards her expenses . |
| 3 | Dr Apps is off on an expedition of a lifetime to the Arctic Circle next month and three chocolate bars are part of his daily diet . |
| 4 | Tony announces that he is off for a crumble , an expression that has taken his fancy and replaced the computerese of going for a ‘ system dump . ’ |
| 5 | Chief Press Officer Alwyn James has , I see , won a Guardian travel prize and is off for a week in the Philippines . |
| 6 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 7 | Hampered by a lack of guidelines the Chancellor 's initiative to encourage private investment in public projects is off to a slow start . |
| 8 | Again , this all helps with cementing the initial relationship and if the first impression is a good one , the practitioner is off to a flying start , which could help if there are difficulties at a later stage with the transaction . |
| 9 | Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon |
| 10 | Silksworth professional Keith Trotter is off to a good start while Houghton are thankful that they injury to Neil Bainbridge is not as serious as first thought . |
| 11 | FORMER window fitter Thomas Carter is off to a flying start in his new career . |
| 12 | Bob is off to a Healing Service . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes it does get me down , but I get over that and then it is off to the next place . ’ |
| 14 | Town jobs are easier and make more money , so it is off to the north and let the country go hang . |
| 15 | Peregrine Penguin , chief waddling reporter for the South Polar Times , is off to the North Pole to visit Santa . |
| 16 | Richard , of Surbiton Road , Hartburn , Stockton , is off to the States again next week to find work where the film stars live . |
| 17 | I have got to the stage where I totally dislike them , so it is off to the opticians next week . |
| 18 | The minute it 's taken , though , Hall is off into the VIP trailer from which he walks straight onto the set . |
| 19 | But all that is off in the future . |
| 20 | Naturally I say , ‘ Hang on a minute ’ , and when I turn round she is off in the kitchen banging saucepans about . |
| 21 | Everton striker Tony Cottee 's comeback is off after a reaction to his troublesome Achilles tendon . |