Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] off for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 2 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Celia , having taken an extra sleeping-pill on his insistence , did not wake , and he himself dozed off for half an hour . |
| 5 | ‘ Please do n't bother , ’ he said nervously , envisaging himself carried off for criminal libel . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | No , erm , she sent off for some curtains |
| 8 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 9 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 10 | And there was a coupon in , he sent off for fifteen pound off . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |