Example sentences of "[vb base] off for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a rigourous routine of hard practice before the party from the Dragon School in Oxford head off for the African continent . |
| 2 | Instead , preceding even the title page is the injunction ‘ Immediately after buying this book , send off for the eight mail order catalogues listed on p.357 ’ . |
| 3 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |
| 4 | Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe . |
| 5 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 6 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 7 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 8 | There is a coincidence with Osbern 's story , and it may be that Swegen was present in England when tribute was paid in 1012 , and then set off for the Irish Sea ( thus repeating the possible pattern of 994 – 5 ) only to be shipwrecked , perhaps off the Welsh coast . |
| 9 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 10 | Accompanied by Major Clive Elderton , the Company Commander , and the interpreter , they set off for the local slaughterhouse some ten kilometres away . |
| 11 | Ossie and Tito steal him back and set off for the wild reaches of western Ireland with Byrne , Kelly and their friend Kathleen ( Barkin ) in hot pursuit . |
| 12 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 13 | as if to underline the point , Malmo completed their regular season by losing 2-0 to relegated Vastra Frolunda , although they now play off for the Swedish title with Norrkoping . |