Example sentences of "[vb pp] off for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 2 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
| 3 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The dog seems anxious to get the harness on ; indeed , all through the trip the dogs are always keen to pull and seem miserable when they are tied off for the night . |
| 7 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 8 | Kallicharran , assuming that the entertainment had been concluded for the day , also set off for the dressing-room . |
| 9 | onto the sand here in Bay and then there seven site or plod laid off for every plougher that was there you see ? |
| 10 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 11 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 12 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 13 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 14 | WOULD YOU HAVE YOUR HAIR CUT OFF FOR AN ALBUM COVER ? |
| 15 | His case was put off for a print-out about his driving licence to be obtained . |
| 16 | The continuing need to demonstrate self control results in all lesser activities being put off for the time-being . |
| 17 | In this country , delivery-ward routines vary from hospital to hospital but there 's no reason for separating mothers and their healthy babies so soon after the birth — measuring and weighing could easily be put off for an hour or two . |
| 18 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 19 | And when people send her christmas cards everyone 's gon na spell it wrong and she 's gon na be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 20 | No I know but everyone would think she was called Samantha and she 'd be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 21 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 22 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 23 | HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO IN THE NAME OF FAME — WOULD YOU HAVE YOUR HAIR SHAVED OFF FOR A FILM OR VIDEO ? : |
| 24 | It all began last November when wrote off for an application form and shortly afterwards they were invited , along with 8,000 other families , to go to Birmingham for an audition . |
| 25 | CHRIS BURTON , Featherstone 's former Great Britain forward , has been suspended for five matches by the Rugby League disciplinary committee after being sent off for a head tackle in Featherstone 's home championship defeat by Leeds last Sunday . |
| 26 | STEVE HAMPSON , the Wigan and Great Britain full-back , was suspended for 10 matches by the disciplinary committee yesterday after being sent off for a head tackle in Saturday 's Regal Trophy quarter-final with at Leeds . |
| 27 | Coventry City .. 3 Grimsby Town ... 0 ( Coventry win 4-3 on agg ) GRIMSBY played for 87 minutes of this Littlewoods Cup tie with 10 men , and their prospects of defending the two-goal lead they brought to Highfield Road disappeared with Tony Rees , who was sent off for a coward 's foul on Greg Downs . |
| 28 | Even when Dave MacDonald was sent off for a second bookable offence the blues were incapable of taking the advantage . |
| 29 | On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne . |
| 30 | Newcastle striker David Kelly was sent off for a foul on Michele Menolascina and the fracas broke out . |