Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall I send off for that ? |
| 2 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 3 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 4 | A dress I , I sent off for two sizes , I 'm glad I did now because I thought you know that the small one would be okay for them , but it 's not , there 's the hat |
| 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 | Celia , having taken an extra sleeping-pill on his insistence , did not wake , and he himself dozed off for half an hour . |
| 7 | ‘ Please do n't bother , ’ he said nervously , envisaging himself carried off for criminal libel . |
| 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 | Basically you will listen for maybe seven minutes then you switch off for two minutes then you switch on again and then you try and think well what was I listening to seven minu well you know , three minutes ago what was probably said in the last two minutes . |
| 10 | No , erm , she sent off for some curtains |
| 11 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 12 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 13 | England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us . |
| 14 | Two ninety nine , you want me to send off for that ? |
| 15 | Anyway , if she does turn up , you can tell her to bugger off for all I care ! ’ |
| 16 | Right hand gear change , non-synchromesh gearbox and in a very odd posture for driving , they set off for 5 laps in these amazing cars . |
| 17 | And there was a coupon in , he sent off for fifteen pound off . |
| 18 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 19 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |