Example sentences of "[v-ing] off for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 2 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale completed two key close season signings before jetting off for a week 's break in Greece yesterday . |
| 3 | Get your playgroup involved by writing off for the Playweek kit , which contains all kinds of money-making ideas . |
| 4 | This is the beginning of the classic route to follow on a walking tour of Zurich , starting from the main railway station through the sophisticated poise of the Bahnhofstrasse and branching off for the Lindenhof . |
| 5 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 6 | the fastest time down the hill at Eastnor for those that managed to stay on was about one minute. , .16 seconds … the top 16 will be racing off for the champions crown but win or lose … fast or slow … they all seem to enjoy themselves … so what 's the fun of it … |
| 7 | the fastest time down the hill at Eastnor for those that managed to stay on was about one minute. , .16 seconds … the top 16 will be racing off for the champions crown but win or lose … fast or slow … they all seem to enjoy themselves … so what 's the fun of it … |
| 8 | There are countless individual stories encapsulated in the photographs of migrant workers arriving at Continental stations or commuters pouring into the London termini , of the Jews being herded on to trains headed for the death-camps , or of armies departing for half a dozen different wars — the brave , cheerful , youthful faces of a nation 's young men heading off for the rendezvous with destiny . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The rain was holding off for a while and the streets were drying in patches . |
| 11 | At the first sign of the emotional see-saw that life so often presents , you go scurrying off for the goodies that give you comfort . |
| 12 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |
| 13 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 14 | Whenever I see coloured people in Porteneil , buying souvenirs or stopping off for a snack , I hope that they will ask me something so that I can show how polite I am and prove that my reasoning is stronger than my more crass instincts , or training . |
| 15 | It was Dennis , stopping off for a pee on his way to replenish the supply of social oxygen , already anxious about what the others were saying about him behind his back . |
| 16 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |
| 17 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 18 | Catch the sunrise , a stunningly colourful experience on a clear day as the morning light reflects on the rocks bringing out an array of unforgettable colour , before setting off for the Navajo Indian Reservation and the trading Post of Cameron . |
| 19 | It was a little confusing to find ourselves setting off for the summits of the Viluyos barely an hour after the decision to do so . |
| 20 | Cairns , convinced an earlier declaration could have given Notts a chance of victory , at one stage squatted in mid-pitch with his head in his hands and was only directed back to the middle after setting off for the pavilion . |
| 21 | ‘ Ow , McAllister , that do n't look safe , ’ panted Rose as she wheeled herself and the bike into the road , preparatory to setting off for the buildings . |
| 22 | The man giggled — a horrible noise — before setting off for the curtain at the back of the room . |
| 23 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 24 | At Westons cidermill in Much Marcle , Herefordshire three hundred revellers are setting off for the apple orchards.They 're following in the footsteps of their pagan ancestors in the hopes of ensuring a bumper harvest . |
| 25 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |