Example sentences of "i [verb] off to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I chatted with her while I weighed the potatoes , then I moved off to the wines and spirits section . |
| 2 | I moved off to the PGA caravan to have words with Sally about our tentative arrangement for dinner at her flat . |
| 3 | I wandered off to Harwich . |
| 4 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 5 | Having admired the kingly tomb and added the name ‘ O'Connor ’ to my list of families who might accept the Irish throne , I wandered off to the Abbey Hotel . |
| 6 | I bought myself three copies of music and Malc and I trotted off to Chapeltown Working Men 's Club where a local agent , Ernest ‘ Honest ’ Johns , held weekly auditions . |
| 7 | I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’ |
| 8 | I turned off to the right . |
| 9 | I set off to the sound of Mick trying to tune into his sports programme . |
| 10 | I set off to Khan Market to buy something for my headache , only to find the roads were clogged with white Ambassadors dressed up as Christmas trees . |
| 11 | So , with a quick flush of guilt for not going in 5 years , I trundled off to downtown Canterbury — quite a way downtown it was too , past Mr Careys bungalow and all the tacky tourist shops . |
| 12 | I continued for fifty minutes , alienating the audience more with every gag , until I walked off to the sound of my own footsteps . |
| 13 | Now I only hope I get off to a winning start with Leeds . ’ |
| 14 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 15 | I stumbled off to polite applause . |
| 16 | I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius . |
| 17 | I remember thinking how white and cold and still her face looked , without the breeze of thought or sentience , as I stumbled off to the tumult of the ramp . |
| 18 | But despite the comments I flew off to Geneva last summer ( with a very ‘ full pack ’ ) and then on by train to Houches — the start and finish of the ‘ Tour Du Mont Blanc ’ ( TMB ) . |
| 19 | How they stand — ’ I broke off to ; get up , quickly . |
| 20 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
| 21 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 22 | When I left the laundry and the kitchen where I received my basic formation as a novice , I went off to university . |
| 23 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She took them in during the day and I went off to Bartle 's — that 's the engineering factory in Brick Lane . |
| 26 | I went off to Kenya to buy lions . |
| 27 | I went off to America to live in New York where I knew one person . |
| 28 | But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses . |
| 29 | So I went off to the er at the show . |
| 30 | No it was just that as I say , I went off to town . |