Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall I send off for that ? |
| 2 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 3 | Celia , having taken an extra sleeping-pill on his insistence , did not wake , and he himself dozed off for half an hour . |
| 4 | No , erm , she sent off for some curtains |
| 5 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Two ninety nine , you want me to send off for that ? |
| 8 | Anyway , if she does turn up , you can tell her to bugger off for all I care ! ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |