Example sentences of "[verb] off for the " in BNC.

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61 To send off for the packs and sign up to take part in National No-Menacing Week write to : Tommy , London SE99 6RD — Tel : 071 620 2654 .
62 The premium is either with the product or the purchaser has to send off for the premium .
63 The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river .
64 Kallicharran , assuming that the entertainment had been concluded for the day , also set off for the dressing-room .
65 At the first sign of the emotional see-saw that life so often presents , you go scurrying off for the goodies that give you comfort .
66 East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw .
67 I say to him [ husband ] I 'm going to clear off for the day and you can do it all one day , and you 'll see what it 's like .
68 I went out into Main Street and started off for the pier .
69 Traffic is still slow moving on the M twenty-five , that 's clockwise at junction sixteen , where you turn off for the M forty .
70 On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents .
71 Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful .
72 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 .
73 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 .
74 no father took off for the hills
75 After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her .
76 Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone .
77 My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort .
78 What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day !
79 Below the cheek the head tapers down and is rounded off for the lower jaw ; the mouth finishes up about 2¼in wide .
80 ‘ Then , if we 're forward enough , Jinny and Oz can go off for the day with a couple of baskets .
81 Erm and er that it 's maybe very important at a time like this when children are potentially going and and knocking on stranger 's doors to be particularly careful so what we 've done is is is put together a simple guide for parents and carers erm which suggests that er they should n't just let their children go off for the evening .
82 In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades .
83 The continuing need to demonstrate self control results in all lesser activities being put off for the time-being .
84 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 .
85 And when people send her christmas cards everyone 's gon na spell it wrong and she 's gon na be pissed off for the rest of her life .
86 No I know but everyone would think she was called Samantha and she 'd be pissed off for the rest of her life .
87 I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe .
88 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 .
89 Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences .
90 Robert Blackaby rounded off for the boys with a good fourth place in the junior 100m freestyle .
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