Example sentences of "[verb] off for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 2 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 3 | the number of consumers cut off for non-payment rose to 21.286 in 1991/92 — an increase of 177% from the previous year . |
| 4 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | WORK in the community is paying off for dedicated staff at Corporation Road Baptist Church in Darlington . |
| 10 | Mining and the condition of miners has been a running sore in Bolivia since the colonial period when Indians were herded off for certain death in the silver mines of Potosí , at that time the wealthiest city in South America . |
| 11 | Enfolded in the crisp embrace of new money , they were pointed and hard , like the nose cones of rockets about to blast off for planetary exploration , the nurturing of new worlds . |
| 12 | The bus took off for downtown Jo'burg , followed by our small convoy of about three cars , though in the ensuing hour , every reporter in FI was shuttling back and forth between the drivers ' hotel and the circuit , where the angry bosses and the choleric Jean-Marie Balestre , president of FISA , met in angry conclave . |
| 13 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 14 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 15 | He joined a roll of dishonour which includes Paul Stewart , sent off for violent conduct against Apollon Limassol in Cyprus , and Bruce Grobbelaar , shown a red card in the second round first leg in Moscow . |
| 16 | The day 's individual performance came striker Gary MacDonald , who scored all four of his side 's goals in their 4–1 home win Blue Mark Outterside gave Blue Star the lead after six minutes , but the visitors then had Micky Robinson sent off for dangerous play . |
| 17 | Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether . |
| 18 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 19 | Occasionally they were cut off for other reasons . |
| 20 | But the school of Tolkien was still notable in creating a large , sudden surface ripple in intellectual life : a surprising return to a sense of the supernatural and the transcendent that modern technology and modern philosophy , between them , were supposed to have finished off for good . |
| 21 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 22 | Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for . |
| 23 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 24 | ROUND four of the Foundry bouldering league was very poorly attended , falling on the exact day when the masses headed off for sunny France . |
| 25 | ‘ Please do n't bother , ’ he said nervously , envisaging himself carried off for criminal libel . |
| 26 | His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play . |
| 27 | THE FA have suspended Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips for three matches after he was sent off for violent conduct in an off-the-ball incident against Southend last Saturday . |
| 28 | Midfielder Willie Falconer is lined up to deputise for Phillips , who was sent off for violent conduct against Southend United . |
| 29 | The match turned ugly in the dying minutes when two-goal Tosh of Arbroath and Fife goalkeeper Charles were sent off for violent conduct . |
| 30 | That set the fur flying and even United coach Geoff Konopka was also sent off for serious misconduct . |