Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] off to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rumour circulates and someone is shuffled off to some distant department . |
| 2 | Gerald Bellamy was posted to the squadron , having previously served with 3 A.A.C.U. He recalls : ‘ I was posted off to Takali and given cockpit drill in a Hurricane . |
| 3 | We were always hidden away somewhere , I was packed off to various boarding-schools , he gave us piles of money , he just did n't want to see us ! |
| 4 | ‘ This time an X-ray revealed the damage and I was packed off to hospital for surgery . ’ |
| 5 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 6 | Adds Murray : ‘ I was hauled off to the station but allowed to go after agreeing to pay for the damage . ’ |
| 7 | That thought had occurred to me before I was hauled off to Southwold police station for the interrogation . |
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| 10 | When Dr Solomon is happy that he 's got your ailment sussed , you 're whisked off to the diseases database . |
| 11 | Subservience was expected by all levels of employer , titled or otherwise , and Marie Thwaites was one of a number of young men and women who were packed off to a life which was not only unacceptable by today 's standards , but hardly believable . |
| 12 | Here is a special Times supplement , no less , devoted to the future recovery of Lebanon in which I write of the ships returning to Beirut port , of the re-opening of central banking facilities , the renovations at the temples of Baalbek , the arrival of the first postwar tourists — Swedes , of course — who were bussed off to the ruins of the Palestinian camp of Tel al-Za'atar and then to the Bekaa . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's been here twice since you were carted off to hospital . |
| 14 | ‘ The sooner she 's packed off to New Zealand away from Ricky the better . ’ |
| 15 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
| 16 | Having performed a healing miracle , she is packed off to a remote convent . |
| 17 | So she was packed off to bloody England and came back with an Englishman . |
| 18 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 19 | Then she was whisked off to lunch at the clubhouse . |
| 20 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 21 | At the end of the EFL training course I did in London , a British Council type gave us all a pep talk before we were packed off to Ankara or Kuala Lumpur . |
| 22 | When they are 15 or 16 they are sent off to work as building labourers , clothing makers or worse . |
| 23 | Only the twins are able to convince the terrorist stone to renounce his plan , yet once the crisis has been averted they are sent off to school in Germany . |
| 24 | They are hauled off to a depot , to await their turn to be processed . |
| 25 | But on privatization , they were split off to be the watchdog for what we put into the rivers . |
| 26 | She looked after some children in their last year before they were packed off to boarding school . |
| 27 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 28 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |
| 29 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 30 | All guitars , from the cheapest acoustics to the top-of-the-range electrics are buzz-checked in soundproofed rooms ; their playing actions are measured and if any guitar falls below the proscribed tolerences it is sent off to be readjusted , perhaps even fret-dressed , before rechecking , packing and shipping . |