Example sentences of "[verb] off for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , as the couple fly off for another holiday in Richard 's private jet , they can be happy in the knowledge that in the unlikely event that Richard should ever loose his millions , they 'll be able to live on love . |
| 2 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 3 | If the answer is yes , ask your Guider to write off for more information . |
| 4 | It can also spread to the neck , arm or jaw and does n't usually ease off for several hours . |
| 5 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 6 | I 'll send off for some stuff . |
| 7 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 8 | The US plans to start airdrops towards the end of this week with about two aircraft a day dropping key food and medical supplies to small communities cut off for 10 months . |
| 9 | the number of consumers cut off for non-payment rose to 21.286 in 1991/92 — an increase of 177% from the previous year . |
| 10 | Throughout this fact sheet ( unless otherwise stated ) we use the 65+ cut off for both sexes ; the retired population is therefore larger than the elderly population . |
| 11 | Should a main branch be broken off for some reason ( by vineyard machinery , for example ) , it is permissible to bring out a shoot half-way along the next branch to fill the gap . |
| 12 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 13 | Smith 's mini gamble paid off for two ends later he stole a single to tie the score at 1-1 . |
| 14 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 15 | He thought these were helpful plans — something positive to get to grips with the habit and see an end to cash shortages in the housekeeping as money was siphoned off for another packet ; no more sandpaper taste in the mouth ; no clothes reeking of stale tobacco and an end to the shakes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 18 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His beleaguered , sexless pseudo-intellectual made rewarding cut-price TV ( no better than when played off Sid James ’ superb guffawing spiv ) , and continued paying off for five years , seven BBC series , abut four key sackings by the Great Man , and at least 500 better gags than the ‘ armful ’ one . |
| 21 | WORK in the community is paying off for dedicated staff at Corporation Road Baptist Church in Darlington . |
| 22 | The snow did n't slack off for 36 hours . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The company has an agreement with its work force that when work is short employees will be laid off for two weeks on full pay [ and ] after that they will have to apply for unemployment benefit … . |
| 28 | The company said last week that 3,300 production workers at its Ryton plant , at Coventry , would be laid off for four days from today because of a drop in demand from continental Europe . |
| 29 | Manager Graham Taylor was expecting Shearer to be laid off for some while , but the extent of the injury will be worrying for all concerned . |
| 30 | The centre of Milton Keynes was sealed off for several hours after a coded telephone message warned of a bomb in the town 's main shopping centre . |