Example sentences of "off to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Annan 's idea is that these planners — civilians as well as military men — should not remain on their bottoms in New York but should be sent off to the field to implement the operations they planned . |
| 2 | We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort . |
| 3 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
| 4 | As you near the gap branch off to the top of Green Gable ( 0.5 miles ) . |
| 5 | My eyes are respectfully downcast while this paunch on legs breaks his wrist , blows a kiss , and sashays off to the tea-machine ? |
| 6 | So , why not just come quietly over to this cosy coupon in the corner , Fatty-Phil in your details and mail it off to the address at the bottom . |
| 7 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 8 | But first , at the start of one of racing 's biggest events , we 're off to the opening day at Cheltenham to join Tim Russon . |
| 9 | And then o over to the bungalow , now she 'll either do that she 'll do the shopping before we go off to the bungalow , maybe we 'll pop down to Asda and |
| 10 | When Lalage , neat as a Nannie 's child in her blue Viyella dressing-gown , had darted off to the bathroom , Nicandra , for the present absolved from her duties as friend and hostess , wound up her gramophone and , as she undressed , surged and swooned pleasantly to the heart-breaking cadences of the Caprice Viennois . |
| 11 | She took herself off to the bathroom , carefully locking both doors before shedding her clothes . |
| 12 | And then he rushed off to the bathroom and started throwing up . ’ |
| 13 | So Cornelius crept off to the bathroom , performed fastidious ablutions , togged up in the vile pyjamas and returned to the bedroom . |
| 14 | Once I get them up from their rest , we go off to the lake and feed the ducks or we go to friends . |
| 15 | It was when he insisted on hauling her off to the sports-wear department that Laura made a really determined effort to bring him to his senses . |
| 16 | Flora sat in the kitchen , laboriously practising chain stitch on a rag torn from an old shirt of Peter 's , and Anna , who was in charge of the cleaning-rota , went off to the church to see if it actually had been cleaned . |
| 17 | That I should n't have swept you straight off to the church ? |
| 18 | Then she knuckled off to the back of the cage and Fifi followed , her eyes fixed on the banana although she was n't trying to snatch . |
| 19 | She saw old Diggory shuffling off to the back regions , the protesting Hector in tow . |
| 20 | ‘ Off to the land of opportunity , are you ? ’ he said jovially and reproachfully . |
| 21 | SNEAKED off to the loo for a secret drag . |
| 22 | I think of dashing off to the loo to drink it but I decide to wait . |
| 23 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 24 | He would collect her in his Morgan two-seater with the original strap round the bonnet , then take her off to the sailing club to commandeer the helm of her Enterprise dinghy , dressed in the latest sailing gear . |
| 25 | As Colin ( looking wasted as in exhausted ) goes off to the tour bus to sleep and Jhelisa disappears with a relative , he hangs out with various fans . |
| 26 | He glanced involuntarily at Jennifer Morgan who said she would make tea , which was what her mother preferred , and bore her off to the kitchen . |
| 27 | Lady Rutherford was off to the kitchen like a steamship , with us trailing in her wake . |
| 28 | Immediately after lunch , she dashed off to the kitchen and found one of the Trunchbull 's famous jugs . |
| 29 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |
| 30 | In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink . |