Example sentences of "off to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We make the most of this and scoot off to the hospital . |
| 2 | I 'm sick of Portraits and wish very much to take my viol-da-gamba and walk off to some sweet village , where I can paint landskips and enjoy the fag-end of life in quietness and ease . |
| 3 | The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway . |
| 4 | His son has gone off to London , and he worries that he may lose touch with him . |
| 5 | He 's Woodleigh 's cousin , and his heir , of course , unless that 's the older Horbury brother who ran off to Australia years ago and has never been heard of since . |
| 6 | I was surprised to learn that my claim could not be backdated , but I wrote those first three weeks ' money off to inexperience . |
| 7 | Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start . |
| 8 | I wandered off to Harwich . |
| 9 | We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square . |
| 10 | We went off to the canteen . |
| 11 | The words just wo n't come any more , so I 'm going to put my biro down and go off to the post . |
| 12 | Students should be given experience of steering the glider off to one side so that they learn how to use the controls independently instead of co-ordinating them . |
| 13 | In a cross wind it almost always pays to turn off to the down wind side first . |
| 14 | Provided the approach path was correct beforehand , the adverse yaw as the aileron is applied swings the nose off to just about the right point to keep the glider on the correct path . |
| 15 | At low altitudes , it is necessary not only to use the height most effectively to search , but also to retreat gradually to your position , off to one side of the landing area for a good base leg and an easy landing . |
| 16 | Jay had asked her over to show her off to her four oldest friends . |
| 17 | Off to the hairdresser . |
| 18 | Just piss off to a nightclub , dear , come back in the wee small hours . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , fuck you ! ’ shouted Martin , and stomped off to the spare room . |
| 20 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 21 | Each district to be balloted to produce its squad for the six thousand , and if the ballot brings up your name , ’ he paused again and saw the hundreds of eyes fixed on his , ‘ then you must go off to the Army , or else pay £10 to hire a substitute . |
| 22 | What — ‘ They are off to the Castle , where else ? |
| 23 | ‘ If there is an army , men will go off to it , if they are poor . ’ |
| 24 | Some little groups were going off to west and east , but most hung on with a sense that the next thing now demanded to be done . |
| 25 | By noon eighteen joists had been nailed into position against the roof-tree but they were short of nails and little Willie McGlashan had been sent off to Grandtully to order a load from Donald Stewart 's smithy . |
| 26 | ‘ And it is not over yet — you know we have Mary to marry off to Alex McLaggan this Friday coming . |
| 27 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 28 | People were moving slowly off to east and west . |
| 29 | She looked like Kirsty when I first went off to Bengal — ‘ Menzies stopped , his own eyes watering , while Cameron let his temper sink back to normal after the gratuitous alarm . |
| 30 | Roger , who was always in charge of the music , bad decided the party was ready for nostalgia — the 60s by the sound of it — someone , Maggie could n't remember who , was singing a song called ‘ Hats off to Larry ’ . |