Example sentences of "[verb] off for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes .
2 East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw .
3 I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe .
4 I am writing this quickly on my return ( Tuesday evening ) from London , prior to setting off for the European rural conference in Scotland .
5 Clarke was the luckiest player on earth not to be sent off for the clearest professional foul imaginable on Strachan after 69 minutes .
6 Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary .
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