Example sentences of "[to-vb] off for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
2 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
3 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
4 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
5 | When the baby cries a lot , and Lesley gets angry with her , I tell her to go off for an hour and I 'll look after her . |
6 | Mm , er what to think , oh I ca n't think of any words , oh we 're going to go off for an interview now anyway . |
7 | I was almost tempted to strip off for a plunge but sensed , then saw , a figure on the bank above . |
8 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
9 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
10 | FIDE said yesterday it would ask the Russian Anatoly Karpov and Dutchman Jan Timman ( beaten by Short in a qualifying event ) to play off for the title instead . |
11 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
12 | 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 . |
13 | The premium is either with the product or the purchaser has to send off for the premium . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He had spent the morning painting picturesque views and quaint scenes for his master , and had been allowed to knock off for a smoke . |
16 | ‘ He may decide to hold off for a few days and give steroids to develop the lungs , ’ Belinda suggested . |
17 | The most common cause of serious accidents on wire launches is making a snap decision to turn off for a 360° turn without ensuring that there is enough speed . |
18 | If you do run into lift , you must assess the situation on each turn , being ready to break off for a normal base leg and approach . |
19 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
20 | So they both agreed to show off for the evening . |
21 | This Pentax weather-resistant camera arrived to be tested at a very opportune moment — I was just about to head off for a surfing weekend in North Cornwall . |
22 | Now , with the Japanese brandishing megabucks under his nose , Christie looks increasingly likely to head off for the Far East en route to the World Cup final in Havana a week later . |
23 | If you have not been impressed by the very positive connection between a lack of dietary fibre and the incidence of' cancer of' the colon , and the possible connections between fibre and heart disease , you are unlikely to rush off for a wholemeal loaf in order to prevent appendicitis or gall stones , just two of the other ailments being associated with our fibre-depleted modern diets . |