Example sentences of "[v-ing] off for a [noun sg] " 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 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The rain was holding off for a while and the streets were drying in patches . |
| 6 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |
| 7 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |