Example sentences of "and [verb] off for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This is the beginning of the classic route to follow on a walking tour of Zurich , starting from the main railway station through the sophisticated poise of the Bahnhofstrasse and branching off for the Lindenhof . |
2 | But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump . |
3 | I went out into Main Street and started off for the pier . |
4 | ‘ He 'll be delighted to have a break and go off for a pint . |
5 | ‘ I hate my fat knees , ’ she said , and went off for a ten-mile hike . |
6 | Sometimes he left the food , leaned into the wind and took off for a while , to circle and check that no Men were about . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |
11 | The next day we hired a Panda auto and nipped off for a game of golf , it had been rather warm and on returning Sonya suggested I remove my cerise tweeds and let my cornet Kascade down . |
12 | Realising that there was more snow on the way , she clenched her teeth and set off for the moors . |
13 | Although it was raining and freezing cold outside , we all got ready and pulled ourselves into our wet suits and set off for the river . |
14 | Miaow , thought Jenny as young Curtis stood up awkwardly and set off for the bar , turning after a couple of steps to ask , ‘ What do you want ? ’ |
15 | When he had gone , Arty , smiling to himself at what he considered a victory , got out of bed and set off for the bathroom to wash his hair . |
16 | We got some torches together and set off for the graveyard . |
17 | We put on our képis , straightened our ties , pulled our fingers into regulation gloves and set off for the guardhouse . |
18 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |
19 | At matches he had to be watched like a hawk in case he wriggled out of his headcollar , and set off for the tea tent , where his doleful yellow face and black-ringed eyes could coax sandwiches and cake out of the most stony-hearted waitress . |
20 | He bounded over the thirteenth and fourteenth and set off for the Chair , that huge open ditch which forms the biggest obstacle on the course . |
21 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |
22 | When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there . |
23 | She combed her hair , applied her make-up and set off for the Post Office . |