Example sentences of "[verb] off for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 2 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 3 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale completed two key close season signings before jetting off for a week 's break in Greece yesterday . |
| 4 | well let it dry off for a minute , well they must have a card , good job I thought about that I should be interested to see what she calls her because I think Annalise is a beautiful name |
| 5 | Yeah , I 'd probably fuck off for a year and do my own thing and come back and maybe take take , maybe start my own business . |
| 6 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
| 7 | It was Jeff who 'd insisted that they stop off for a drink . |
| 8 | Leith blanked off for a moment as , with sinking spirits , she felt it would be a wonder if Sebastian found himself free to return to pay something off his mortgage the Christmas after next , let alone this coming one . |
| 9 | ‘ Bless my soul , ’ said Calatin in a deep rumbling voice , ‘ bless my soul , I believe I dropped off for a while . |
| 10 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 11 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 12 | ‘ My mother will probably have a very genteel fit of hysteria , and my father will mutter something about it being a ‘ damn shame ’ and your not being ‘ the right kind of girl ’ , and then stomp off for a game of golf . |
| 13 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 16 | And they 'd knock off for a bit of dinner , come back , and do the second milking . |
| 17 | The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools . |
| 18 | Nosey parkering round the piles of recently acquired books while her hostess goes off for a pee , she announces on Rainbow 's return — ‘ I was right . |
| 19 | I would feel tired , back off for a couple of days , but then go straight back into it again . |
| 20 | I was almost tempted to strip off for a plunge but sensed , then saw , a figure on the bank above . |
| 21 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 22 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 23 | But by portraying those of us who have sought conductive education for our children as unthinking lemmings dashing off for a dose of Hungarian miracle water , Dr Oliver 's polemic does us — and conductive education — less than justice . |
| 24 | ‘ When Marcus comes back , piss off for a bit , will you ? |
| 25 | He shouts especially at Pyjamas , who skulks off for a broom . |
| 26 | The rain was holding off for a while and the streets were drying in patches . |
| 27 | The reason there is not a report is that Coun Terrans 's jump was called off for a day , perhaps because parchute jumps and mid-air collisions , even of a mock variety , are not a good match . |
| 28 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 29 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 30 | 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 |