Example sentences of "[vb past] off for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We headed off for the north-east facing slopes of La Masse , hoping to find the best snow . |
| 2 | Then it was a half-hour 's drive from our base to Christophe and Hedwige 's house , and from there Mike would set off on an hour 's run with Christophe through the forest , still in darkness , to ensure they reached the chimpanzees ' nest site before the occupants moved off for the day . |
| 3 | The bus was made to stop on Westminster Bridge , where the ‘ Lord Dennings ’ filed off for the benefit of the world 's press , to the accompaniment of a reading by Heathcote Williams , the alternative poet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Bless my soul , ’ said Calatin in a deep rumbling voice , ‘ bless my soul , I believe I dropped off for a while . |
| 6 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 7 | Ga-ry and Ja-kki are only outdone in the hard-work stakes by the man from the council with the large hammer who perpetually replaces fence posts as the crowd swells and the area cordoned off for the benefit of the saplings shrinks . |
| 8 | But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump . |
| 9 | With that , I galloped off for the train , and even had time for a drink before it left . |
| 10 | Mr Yeltsin secured the required number of votes in his third attempt in four days , just as President Gorbachov flew off for a visit to Canada prior to his summit with President Bush in America . |
| 11 | Southend 's players flew off for a week 's break in Spain after a 2-1 win at Halifax which put them five points clear at the top of the Fourth Division . |
| 12 | I went out into Main Street and started off for the pier . |
| 13 | They had the car lights switched off for a while . |
| 14 | Sometimes he left the food , leaned into the wind and took off for a while , to circle and check that no Men were about . |
| 15 | After the celebrations were over , the couple took off for a honeymoon retreat in Asia . |
| 16 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 17 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |
| 18 | After eight years practising and perfecting he sent off for a plan and made his own Appalachian dulcimer — and it was better than the one he was given . |
| 19 | I told him it was n't me. ’ — The amateur footballer sent off for a foul by his twin brother . |
| 20 | ‘ I hate my fat knees , ’ she said , and went off for a ten-mile hike . |
| 21 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 22 | She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire . |
| 23 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
| 24 | They had n't said much to me apart from announcing themselves as Detective-Sergeant Hatchard and Detective Constable White , and even when they got back inside , Hatchard talked to the pathologist while White went off for a snoop around , as policemen do . |
| 25 | ‘ He stayed in his room when his wife went off for a jaunt round Oxford , remember ? |
| 26 | Corporal Ryan , the Irish Corporal , went off for a week 's leave in Marseilles and , for an unknown reason , killed himself with a hunting rifle in a hotel in the Old port . |
| 27 | Then they all went off for a visit to the zoo |
| 28 | Fabia drifted off for a second or two as she recalled the pleasantness of the evening , and the charm of her host . |
| 29 | He shot off for the bungalow and a private phone . |
| 30 | The next day we hired a Panda auto and nipped off for a game of golf , it had been rather warm and on returning Sonya suggested I remove my cerise tweeds and let my cornet Kascade down . |