Example sentences of "and take [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 . |
| 6 | Then he suddenly remembered Sophia Ainger 's sister , the rather odd young woman he had met in Bloomsbury that evening and taken out for a drink . |
| 7 | All five teenagers were arrested and taken in for questioning . |
| 8 | She might as well cut her losses and take off for Phobos or Longevity , see if there was anything there , see if there was anyone that had n't flown down for carnival . |