Example sentences of "he [verb] off for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After eight years practising and perfecting he sent off for a plan and made his own Appalachian dulcimer — and it was better than the one he was given . |
| 2 | She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He shot off for the bungalow and a private phone . |
| 5 | Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |