Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] off to be " in BNC.

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1 ANGIE WENT OFF TO BE A PLUGHEAD .
2 Kamara limped off to be replaced by Falconer after 48 minutes and it needed a well-timed sliding tackle by Phillips to deny Guentchev four minutes later .
3 Honest prose defeats dissembling verse , and the braggart goes off to be a thief .
4 Lucker dives off to be photographer .
5 Analysis of progressions leading to dissociation ( at which point the progression breaks off to be replaced by continuous absorption ) can give us accurate values of dissociation energies for simple molecules .
6 This week Kevin Morris from Cheltenham set off to be the 424th and the very first to do it backstroke .
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