Example sentences of "and took [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He said later he saw the 109s and took off for home . |
| 3 | It was flown by Geoff Dodd , a company pilot : ‘ I picked up my survival suit , cleared Special Branch , and took off for the Isle of Man suited-up and wearing a life-jacket . |
| 4 | Sometimes he left the food , leaned into the wind and took off for a while , to circle and check that no Men were about . |
| 5 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |