Example sentences of "off to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRIMMED WITH RIBBONS OR CROWNED WITH ROSES : ROBERT BURGESS TAKES HIS HAT OFF TO A BEVY OF WIDE-BRIMMED BEAUTIES |
| 2 | She would have hated it if she had to admit defeat , and crawl off to a hotel somewhere . |
| 3 | He went off to a shoot . |
| 4 | Just piss off to a nightclub , dear , come back in the wee small hours . |
| 5 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 6 | Let's hope for a butterflyfilled summer this year , and if you 're off to a country wedding , may it be as joyful an occasion as the Sarns ' feast . |
| 7 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 8 | You will be whisked off to a photographer 's studio for a photo session where a top hairdresser , make-up artist and fashion stylist will be waiting to give you a fabulous makeover . |
| 9 | We could send them off to a university or something like that so the . |
| 10 | But Mr Endara is probably relieved to see him off to a US prison . |
| 11 | At the question session afterwards , one disgruntled UFO watcher summed up the audience 's feelings : ‘ If you want to talk about psychology , why do n't you bugger off to a psychology conference . |
| 12 | After the delay period there is a linear increase in the labelling of secreted enzymes curving off to a plateau value after four hours at which time pancreatic enzyme stores ( zymogen ) will be fully labelled at a specific activity equivalent to that of the precursor amino acid pool . |
| 13 | Penry hurried her off to a row of garages on one side of the road leading from the beach into the village . |
| 14 | One minute the firm was having a few financial problems and hoping for some helpful investment advice , the next their premises were sold off to a factory development corporation , their directors sacked , the workforce were redundant . |
| 15 | Responsibility for various specific public services is hived off to a range of special agencies , though in each case ultimate responsibility for policy lies with one of the central departments . |
| 16 | It was like autumn , Pink the chaffinch was his friend , we hurry , so they flew off to a field where the corn had been thrashed . |
| 17 | It denied Wolves their first win at Filbert Street in 20 years and Hoult walked off to a standing ovation from the 13,000 crowd . |
| 18 | They then tail off to a level which , for the majority of the manual working population , is less than that enjoyed in their early twenties . |
| 19 | DAVID Rocastle aims to get off to a flier with Leeds today by chalking up a hat-trick in the Makita Tournament . |
| 20 | But brightness was in short supply as his players trooped off to a crescendo of boos . |
| 21 | He took the two boys off to a Lyons Corner House in peckham Rye , invited them to Bedford Gardens to meet Colquhoun and MacBryde , showed them his paintings , played Marlene Dietrich and Billie Holiday records and in one remarkable evening left them firmly hooked on the Bohemian life , determined also to become artists . |
| 22 | At last he turned north again , his dog still running at his heels , and set off to a village just outside London . |
| 23 | He went off to a pub , spent half an hour with his mates , and then reported to the casualty department and was dead within a quarter of an hour . |
| 24 | You 'd have to add interest , of course , but even so he would take his hat off to a man 80 billion in the red who never stopped spending . |
| 25 | As far as they knew , these 570 people were off to a temperance rally at Loughborough ; most of them were probably unaware that they were taking part in an historical journey — Thomas Cook 's first excursion in 1841 . |
| 26 | Betty had met me at Bellanoch , whisking me off to a venison dinner at her friend 's at Ford . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The better pupils then went off to a boarding school . |
| 29 | They are hauled off to a depot , to await their turn to be processed . |
| 30 | Let him sell it off to a museum . |