Example sentences of "off [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We chose all our services in London — knock ten per cent off to compare with the rest of Britain . |
| 2 | He goes off to report to the sergeant . |
| 3 | On the day of his first marriage , his wife went off to perform in a matinée and Burton listened to the International match . |
| 4 | The other girls followed suit , and the waitress , after a moment 's hesitation , wrung in turn the outstretched hands before hurrying off to attend to the needs of a customer who , to judge by his impatience , was in the last stages of starvation . |
| 5 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 6 | The occasion was an immediately recognisable lunch party , after which Comfort and some of the other guests had gone off to swim in the nearby river , while Anthony and Julia had sat together , digesting and beginning to explore the edges of the feeling that was growing between them . |
| 7 | well personally I 've , I 've never had a problem getting members who are on nights their night off to go on a training course , never . |
| 8 | That 's why I kept putting it off to go to the doctor to get help 'cos I thought that , with me having kids , he would automatically ring the social services and tell them . |
| 9 | It 's a very stiff exam I must admit , when I look back on it , and we all had a a day off to go to the at or the Grammar school , sit this exam er and since I never heard anything I 'm assuming I failed . |
| 10 | ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington . |
| 11 | The Land Rover pulled into the ambulance unloading bay at the hospital and then moved off to wait in the staff car park while Donaldson took Mrs Balanchine to the men 's ward . |
| 12 | She waited for a moment and then walked off to stand in a different part of the ship . |
| 13 | To this man he entrusted six wagonloads of treasure , and sent him off to wander over the whole wide world , looking for a twin brother and sister , Stoja and Stojane . |
| 14 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 15 | John and wife Pam had written off to appear on the programme only to discover there were 10,000 applicants . |
| 16 | After a cursory check , Myeloski went off to talk to the guard at the gate and find a torch . |
| 17 | She pretended not to see David Rosen who appeared on the step as they drove off to talk to the men at the place where they gathered before work . |
| 18 | Skim over the coast of Hawaii in a glider , roar across Arizona with the US Navy 's Blue Angels and lift off to space in a Saturn V rocket . |
| 19 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |
| 20 | Gloria was officially still at school but took most afternoons off to help in the shop , for which she got paid . |
| 21 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 22 | off to look after the |
| 23 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 24 | She wished him goodnight , and set off to walk up the hill , her feet scarcely touching the ground . |
| 25 | My meals came free also , at the nearby cafeteria , and I had an hour off to walk around the town . |
| 26 | The doctor would feel her breasts , find nothing , smile and send her off to deal with a new , an incurable bitterness . |
| 27 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 28 | She may have discovered a nest of young rabbits , a delicacy indeed in her terms , had a very good meal and then gone off to sleep within the rabbit 's nest . |
| 29 | If she misbehaved , she was packed off to sleep in the old people 's home in another part of the building — a terrifying prospect for a girl with such a vivid imagination . |
| 30 | but oh dear but he , mum did get him off to sleep in the end |