Example sentences of "have [verb] off for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Take a look behind , nephew , ’ came the answer , ‘ and you will see that already the litter carrying the prince has turned off for Westminster ! ’ |
| 2 | The poet writes for , and gives a voice to , people whose privileged education has closed off for them the possibility of speaking as limpidly and directly as the speaker of ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ . |
| 3 | The premium is either with the product or the purchaser has to send off for the premium . |
| 4 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 5 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 6 | I mean they were there at lunchtime when I came home and there was nobody with them so I assumed they 'd knocked off for lunch . |
| 7 | He 'd had to break off for lack of an English verb that he remembered as soon as Bacci pronounced it . |
| 8 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 9 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 10 | And that means a reason right there on the spot , otherwise , once out of sight , he 'd simply have made off for wherever it was he wanted to be . |
| 11 | But the school of Tolkien was still notable in creating a large , sudden surface ripple in intellectual life : a surprising return to a sense of the supernatural and the transcendent that modern technology and modern philosophy , between them , were supposed to have finished off for good . |
| 12 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 13 | Before Father Kendrick had set off for his new city parish — racial mix , boys ' club , mothers ' union , young people 's fellowship ; the proper challenge for a mildly high-church , ambitious young priest with one eye on a mitre — he had had a brief word about Beryl McBride . |
| 14 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 15 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |
| 19 | Anyway his uncle had gone off for Christmas with his family , the house was empty . |
| 20 | Collins was the other striking contributor within Scotland 's side , tirelessly continuing at international level where he had left off for his club in Saturday 's Old Firm game and looking unaffected by the demands of a workload which had caused wholesale disruption to the national team elsewhere . |
| 21 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 22 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 23 | Once down on the road they headed for Bagoush , which ironically was the airfield from which they had taken off for their first disastrous operation the previous year . |
| 24 | Perhaps student life does not prepare anyone adequately for the daily slog of an ordinary job , and after two or three attempts to settle into a career in sales management and even in personnel , she had taken off for America . |
| 25 | And when you 've sent off for our supremely stylish blazer ( page 50 ) I hope you 'll enjoy browsing through Classics ( loose-inserted in this edition ) , a catalogue of the best fashion and home offers produced in recent months by SHE and some of our sister magazines including Country Living , Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping . |
| 26 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |
| 27 | His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play . |
| 28 | As she stared at him , she knew it had come , the moment of physical and emotional confrontation she had held off for so long , and she felt so vulnerable that she could barely breathe . |
| 29 | Although you may be able to fob off your opponent by letting them have a copy of your accounts ledger , you should not be in a position where you have to write off for copy receipts ; all these documents should be properly filed . |
| 30 | THIS is a bit hard to understand but some audacious young men from Newcastle have set off for Europe in the company of Ermentrude the Cow from The Magic Roundabout . |