Example sentences of "[verb] off for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bus was made to stop on Westminster Bridge , where the ‘ Lord Dennings ’ filed off for the benefit of the world 's press , to the accompaniment of a reading by Heathcote Williams , the alternative poet . |
| 2 | Day Two : At 8.00am breakfast is on the table and your cruiser casts off for the sail to the ancient spa town of Bad Schandau . |
| 3 | Ga-ry and Ja-kki are only outdone in the hard-work stakes by the man from the council with the large hammer who perpetually replaces fence posts as the crowd swells and the area cordoned off for the benefit of the saplings shrinks . |
| 4 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 5 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 6 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 7 | ‘ Then , if we 're forward enough , Jinny and Oz can go off for the day with a couple of baskets . |
| 8 | And when people send her christmas cards everyone 's gon na spell it wrong and she 's gon na be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 9 | No I know but everyone would think she was called Samantha and she 'd be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 10 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 11 | The man giggled — a horrible noise — before setting off for the curtain at the back of the room . |
| 12 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 13 | Last year , 20 players were sent off for the use of elbows . |
| 14 | When the Dragons first eleven set off for the sun in a couple of weeks time they 'll be taking with them a pretty impressive record , just 2 defeats in the last seven seasons . |
| 15 | Val set off for the interior in the best of the hire cars available , a well worn seat with grudging breaks , and drove alone on empty roads through a barren and alien territory . |
| 16 | The colonel set off for the airport with the general in custody . |
| 17 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |