Example sentences of "off to [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're off to South America now to join up again with the Camel Trophy … an international expedition through Brazil and Guyana … |
| 2 | We 're off to South America now to join up again with the Camel Trophy … an international expedition through Brazil and Guyana … |
| 3 | A few days later , he was off to south London , where he concentrated on the subject of deserts — his speciality . |
| 4 | Then off to North Parade in 1833 , where two ‘ Miss Titford 's ’ followed the same business as milliners , the other , Elizabeth , being almost certainly Mary 's niece , daughter of her brother Benjamin who had died in London in 1816 . |
| 5 | I think she maybe takes the exams in June and gets the results in July and er then we 're fifty in August and then we go off to North America in September I think , you know , er I think , I , I ca n't quite remember the details but erm |
| 6 | 08.30 Fred Allcock , who has already been given temporary hand-written despatch documents by John Bell , drives off to Stadium Plastics . |
| 7 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 8 | He agreed to do so , and Apollinaris , the son of a previous bishop , the great Sidonius Apollinaris , was sent off to king Theuderic as the candidate for the office , and was appointed . |
| 9 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 10 | She looked after some children in their last year before they were packed off to boarding school . |
| 11 | He said the English were fine ones to bang on about cruelty when they sent little boys off to boarding school when they were eight . |
| 12 | Willie had already helped paint the scenery but had been asked to take over as prompter when Matthew Browne had been suddenly whisked off to boarding school . |
| 13 | And now she 's seen Prince Harry safely off to boarding school , she 's asking for more . |
| 14 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 15 | When he failed to get in to Merchant Taylors , Iain was sent off to boarding school in Bishop 's Stortford . |
| 16 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 17 | Cutting auditors ' noses off to spite clients ' faces There are no cogent arguments for radically extending the regulation of auditors ' independence |
| 18 | Hue and Cry jet off to Sigma Sound , NYC , to work with Jimmy Biondolillo ( Sinatra 's strings arranger ) and the horn section James Brown used for Living in America . |
| 19 | Back in Frenchay , Caroline , who has never got things out of perspective , changed out of her special Palace outfit and went off to choir practice as if nothing had happened . |
| 20 | The three of us often went off to ordnance depots where Eric bent all his efforts to persuading whoever was in charge to donate a load of blankets ( which made excellent winter coats and suits ) or , if he was trying to help a doctor , a set of motor tyres , which were worth their weight in gold . |
| 21 | Bunny and he were off to Midnight Mass . |
| 22 | ‘ I would like to make a record so we 're putting together some tapes this month and we hope to send them off to recording companies and agents to see if we can get a contract . |
| 23 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 24 | Across the bridge a no-through-road branches off to Stone House Farm and discloses ahead the massive Artengill Viaduct , eleven lofty arches spanning a hollow in the skyline in a remarkable feat of railway engineering . |
| 25 | If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said . |
| 26 | The junior nurse scuttled off to Room F , where Jill Herbert , a third-year nurse , was obviously waiting . |
| 27 | Short commons , endless insecurity , real fear of losing the roof over their heads , and all the best men cropped — packed off to Botany Bay for poaching . |
| 28 | The transition matrices used were trigram matrices , based on the Marshall formula ( equation 3.3 ) and backing off to bigram information ( equation 1.3 ) when no trigram information was available . |
| 29 | Their parents had been taken off to detainee camps , and they were lonely and desolate . |
| 30 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |