Example sentences of "[verb] off for a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 2 | PRINCESS Diana and her two boys will jet off for a sunshine holiday in the Caribbean , it was revealed last night . |
| 3 | After the celebrations were over , the couple took off for a honeymoon retreat in Asia . |
| 4 | ‘ I hate my fat knees , ’ she said , and went off for a ten-mile hike . |
| 5 | She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire . |
| 6 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |
| 7 | Celebrities strip off for a TV valentine |
| 8 | CHRIS BURTON , Featherstone 's former Great Britain forward , has been suspended for five matches by the Rugby League disciplinary committee after being sent off for a head tackle in Featherstone 's home championship defeat by Leeds last Sunday . |
| 9 | STEVE HAMPSON , the Wigan and Great Britain full-back , was suspended for 10 matches by the disciplinary committee yesterday after being sent off for a head tackle in Saturday 's Regal Trophy quarter-final with at Leeds . |
| 10 | After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ ) |
| 11 | A COUPLE who left their two children ‘ Home Alone ’ while they jetted off for a sunshine Christmas holiday were being questioned by police last night . |