Example sentences of "take off for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not one person who has met the qualifying standard before the plane takes off for Auckland will be left behind , ’ Hunter said . |
| 2 | When Robert Layton , from Leominster in Herefordshire , takes off for Portugal on Saturday , he 'll be literally flying on a wing and a prayer , a wing of nylon and a prayer for good weather . |
| 3 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 4 | He would take off for days and no one would see him . |
| 5 | I , I er , looks like erm teaching eleven fifteen to one fifteen my lunch hour is say one fifteen to two fifteen and technically I can er have it , I could probably , I could be , take off Friday afternoon , it 's the only time I could take off for averaging |
| 6 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 7 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 8 | In 1961 he took off for New York city to pay his respects to his latest hero , hobo and folk singer Woody Guthrie , then dying of Huntington 's Chorea ; and he returned to Minneapolis later that year a-singing and a-playing , mumbling and slurring his words , just like Woody himself . |
| 9 | ‘ He started to read it as the plane took off for Haifa . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After the celebrations were over , the couple took off for a honeymoon retreat in Asia . |
| 12 | He said later he saw the 109s and took off for home . |
| 13 | Mr Al-Haroun noticed the Credit and Marketing Manager 's absence around the time he took off for Dharram . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | no father took off for the hills |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He and Sybil took off for a few weeks ' holiday before going back to London . |
| 20 | Sometimes he left the food , leaned into the wind and took off for a while , to circle and check that no Men were about . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |
| 24 | After her Medau season in Dumfries and Galloway ended , Valerie Archibald took off for New York to visit her son 's family . |
| 25 | If the glider gets wet before taking off for a high climb , the airbrakes may freeze up and become unusable . |
| 26 | I had to take two more roadside breaks and got into the city at two in the morning , taking off for Texas at dawn . |
| 27 | The single-engine Socata vanished from radar screens after taking off for Mull from Blackpool on Saturday . |
| 28 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |