Example sentences of "off on a [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been left behind by the economic restructuring of the 1980s , shunted off on a branch line of history and left back in the twilight of the 1970s along with flares and skinheads , a time when demagogues made last-ditch efforts to salvage working-class pride and channel it in a fascist direction . |
| 2 | WHEN Tim Barranger and his wife set off on a shopping trip from their home in Ilkley , Yorkshire they asked the inspector on their train for the cheapest day-return ticket to Leeds . |
| 3 | An opportunity for escape occurred shortly afterwards when she and Wordsworth set off on a walking tour into the Wye Valley . |
| 4 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 5 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 6 | Or suppose you 're setting off on a driving tour of Spain and you do n't speak the language . |
| 7 | Four of the Night Owls Swimming Club , based at Templemore Avenue Pool , were having a ‘ splashing ’ time before heading off on a club trip to Donaghadee following a successful fund raising effort recently which brought in over £1 , for a local charity . |
| 8 | They were off on a collision course with the beaten snow , their equipment and one another . |
| 9 | Just before dozing off on an air mattress beneath a nylon tent amid the stench of decaying refuse they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings . |