Example sentences of "[verb] off for a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 2 | Leith blanked off for a moment as , with sinking spirits , she felt it would be a wonder if Sebastian found himself free to return to pay something off his mortgage the Christmas after next , let alone this coming one . |
| 3 | ‘ My mother will probably have a very genteel fit of hysteria , and my father will mutter something about it being a ‘ damn shame ’ and your not being ‘ the right kind of girl ’ , and then stomp off for a game of golf . |
| 4 | And they 'd knock off for a bit of dinner , come back , and do the second milking . |
| 5 | I would feel tired , back off for a couple of days , but then go straight back into it again . |
| 6 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 7 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 8 | But by portraying those of us who have sought conductive education for our children as unthinking lemmings dashing off for a dose of Hungarian miracle water , Dr Oliver 's polemic does us — and conductive education — less than justice . |
| 9 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 10 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 11 | Mr Yeltsin secured the required number of votes in his third attempt in four days , just as President Gorbachov flew off for a visit to Canada prior to his summit with President Bush in America . |
| 12 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 13 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 14 | I told him it was n't me. ’ — The amateur footballer sent off for a foul by his twin brother . |
| 15 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 16 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
| 17 | ‘ He stayed in his room when his wife went off for a jaunt round Oxford , remember ? |
| 18 | Then they all went off for a visit to the zoo |
| 19 | It was Dennis , stopping off for a pee on his way to replenish the supply of social oxygen , already anxious about what the others were saying about him behind his back . |
| 20 | His case was put off for a print-out about his driving licence to be obtained . |
| 21 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |
| 22 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 23 | Newcastle striker David Kelly was sent off for a foul on Michele Menolascina and the fracas broke out . |
| 24 | MARK JONES , the 16-stone Welsh forward in trouble after being sent off for a punch in Hull 's fiery clash with Warrington , is in more hot water . |
| 25 | The next day we hired a Panda auto and nipped off for a game of golf , it had been rather warm and on returning Sonya suggested I remove my cerise tweeds and let my cornet Kascade down . |
| 26 | BREAKFAST listeners were left in silence when two radio presenters nipped off for a coffee during the news — and got locked out of the studio . |
| 27 | This state of things must indeed seem strange to the young people of today who can fly off for a summer in Katmandu with scarcely a quiver of apprehension or pause for wonder . |
| 28 | Two police forces and an airline took part in the 350-mile dash to make sure newlyweds Mark and Jan Hemmingway jetted off for a fortnight in the Seychelles . |
| 29 | The reception , complete with Thai barbecue , was held in a marquee in the back garden of their south London home , and the newly-weds jetted off for a honeymoon in New York . |