Example sentences of "take [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Al-Haroun noticed the Credit and Marketing Manager 's absence around the time he took off for Dharram . |
| 32 | It was flown by Geoff Dodd , a company pilot : ‘ I picked up my survival suit , cleared Special Branch , and took off for the Isle of Man suited-up and wearing a life-jacket . |
| 33 | The bus took off for downtown Jo'burg , followed by our small convoy of about three cars , though in the ensuing hour , every reporter in FI was shuttling back and forth between the drivers ' hotel and the circuit , where the angry bosses and the choleric Jean-Marie Balestre , president of FISA , met in angry conclave . |
| 34 | no father took off for the hills |
| 35 | A few credits shy of his degree at the University of Missouri , however , he took off for Los Angeles , ostensibly to attend art school , which he never did . |
| 36 | The Gulf War may have been responsible for the postponement of the finals of the Head/Isrotel/Tennis World tournament , which were due to be staged at the end of 1990 , for one year , but it certainly did n't dampen the enjoyment of the 12 regional winners who eventually took off for Eliat at the end of November 1991 . |
| 37 | He and Sybil took off for a few weeks ' holiday before going back to London . |
| 38 | Sometimes he left the food , leaned into the wind and took off for a while , to circle and check that no Men were about . |
| 39 | After nine prominent law firms had each recommended Aviv highly , Shaughnessy hired him and his company , Interfor , Inc. to develop those leads , and Aviv took off for Europe . |
| 40 | After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her . |
| 41 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |
| 42 | After her Medau season in Dumfries and Galloway ended , Valerie Archibald took off for New York to visit her son 's family . |
| 43 | If the glider gets wet before taking off for a high climb , the airbrakes may freeze up and become unusable . |
| 44 | I had to take two more roadside breaks and got into the city at two in the morning , taking off for Texas at dawn . |
| 45 | The single-engine Socata vanished from radar screens after taking off for Mull from Blackpool on Saturday . |
| 46 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 47 | one of the favourites to win the British Hangliding Championships is Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes … he helped Britain to third in the world cup which has just finished in California … now he 's taking off for Spain … that'ss where they 're holding the British competition … why its hot sunny and its ' not raining … |
| 48 | She took out for both of them once |
| 49 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 50 | The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity , mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed ( until the 1987 crash ) . |
| 51 | You are also far less likely to be taken on for training . |
| 52 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |
| 53 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 54 | However , she was taken on for six months by the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in the children 's ward . |
| 55 | Indeed , apart from workers in holiday camps who , because they are taken on for periods expected to be in excess of 13 weeks , qualify for statutory sickness pay , most seasonal workers are not entitled to any income replacement in case of absence . |
| 56 | He 'd known perfectly well how she 'd react when he 'd arranged for her to be taken on for this play . |
| 57 | These trainee hostesses our among nearly five hundred new recruits being taken on for flights to up to eight additional cities starting in the new year . |
| 58 | Sixty extra Scottish Office staff have been taken on for the agriculture department 's area offices , plus a further 30 at its Edinburgh headquarters . |
| 59 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 60 | You 'd have to take them all in to be examined , then see if there was any fraying around the trousers and you had n't reported it , for ordinary wear and tear had to be reported and then taken in for repair — you could n't repair it yourself . |