Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] off for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that , I galloped off for the train , and even had time for a drink before it left . |
| 2 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 3 | Traffic is still slow moving on the M twenty-five , that 's clockwise at junction sixteen , where you turn off for the M forty . |
| 4 | We headed off for the north-east facing slopes of La Masse , hoping to find the best snow . |
| 5 | Mohammed came with us to Taroudant where Aziz organised the Tichka end ( his patch ) and we set off for the mountains . |
| 6 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 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 | A young attendant in a blue uniform respectfully opened the door , and as soon as Luce had been settled into the grey suede luxury of the front passenger-seat they set off for the mainland . |
| 9 | So they follow their pseudo-parents as they set off for the village shops , until they feel themselves getting too far from the ‘ nest ’ , and then break off to return to safety . |
| 10 | He is in London with Jacob , his wife Judy and daughter Julia , 10 , and before they set off for the Odeon , Leicester Square , last night , he said : ‘ None of us would be here today without Jake 's idea . ’ |
| 11 | Side by side , a matching pair , both in their best clothes , they set off for the police station on Royal Hill . |
| 12 | I gave Owen 's parents the address of the Hyperactive Children 's Support Group ( HACSG ) and suggested they write off for the HACSG diet sheet ( based on the Feingold diet ) . |
| 13 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 14 | He shot off for the bungalow and a private phone . |
| 15 | Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more . |
| 16 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 17 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 18 | The aircraft-carrier Clemenceau , though it set off for the Gulf and its movements were followed initially by Le Monde , returned to Toulon in October after a 55-day voyage . |