Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] off for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 3 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |