Example sentences of "and then [verb] off for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Shove 'em in t'manger , ’ Jonadab directed , ‘ and then get off for thi dinner . ’ |
| 2 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
| 3 | I mean , you do n't get down to things and then break off for refreshments , do you ? ’ |
| 4 | With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home . |
| 5 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
| 6 | There is a coincidence with Osbern 's story , and it may be that Swegen was present in England when tribute was paid in 1012 , and then set off for the Irish Sea ( thus repeating the possible pattern of 994 – 5 ) only to be shipwrecked , perhaps off the Welsh coast . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 9 | She 's here er , and she put me in a hospital and then going off for something . |
| 10 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |