Example sentences of "[verb] off for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the recession been staved off for longer , support for the Scottish Nationalists — now at 31 p.c. in the polls and only seven points behind Labour — might not have been as strong . |
| 2 | So , as the couple fly off for another holiday in Richard 's private jet , they can be happy in the knowledge that in the unlikely event that Richard should ever loose his millions , they 'll be able to live on love . |
| 3 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 4 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 5 | If the answer is yes , ask your Guider to write off for more information . |
| 6 | It can also spread to the neck , arm or jaw and does n't usually ease off for several hours . |
| 7 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 8 | Shall I send off for that ? |
| 9 | I 'll send off for some stuff . |
| 10 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 11 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 12 | And they get let off for that ! |
| 13 | In the meantime it remains unused and sealed off for much of the year . |
| 14 | The US plans to start airdrops towards the end of this week with about two aircraft a day dropping key food and medical supplies to small communities cut off for 10 months . |
| 15 | the number of consumers cut off for non-payment rose to 21.286 in 1991/92 — an increase of 177% from the previous year . |
| 16 | Throughout this fact sheet ( unless otherwise stated ) we use the 65+ cut off for both sexes ; the retired population is therefore larger than the elderly population . |
| 17 | Anyway , if she does turn up , you can tell her to bugger off for all I care ! ’ |
| 18 | Should a main branch be broken off for some reason ( by vineyard machinery , for example ) , it is permissible to bring out a shoot half-way along the next branch to fill the gap . |
| 19 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 20 | Smith 's mini gamble paid off for two ends later he stole a single to tie the score at 1-1 . |
| 21 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 22 | He thought these were helpful plans — something positive to get to grips with the habit and see an end to cash shortages in the housekeeping as money was siphoned off for another packet ; no more sandpaper taste in the mouth ; no clothes reeking of stale tobacco and an end to the shakes . |
| 23 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 24 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 25 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 26 | During the late sixties and early seventies the mining companies brought shortlived booms to the areas in which they were operating , before heading off for other prospects , leaving their wastes and miners behind them . |
| 27 | The first time we went , Marie wore her bra and knickers , but she was told off for that , so she bought this real nice swimming costume . |
| 28 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 29 | His beleaguered , sexless pseudo-intellectual made rewarding cut-price TV ( no better than when played off Sid James ’ superb guffawing spiv ) , and continued paying off for five years , seven BBC series , abut four key sackings by the Great Man , and at least 500 better gags than the ‘ armful ’ one . |
| 30 | WORK in the community is paying off for dedicated staff at Corporation Road Baptist Church in Darlington . |