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 . |