Example sentences of "off on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know she became somewhat lonely because her husband , although he was a very hard worker , would go off on a spree for some days at a time . |
| 2 | Back inside I felt sick and my stomach gurgled , starting me off on a worry about the absence of toilet facilities . |
| 3 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 4 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 5 | He hitch-hikes to San Francisco , lives briefly in a commune , and then sets off on a journey with two of its members , Lockett and Meridith . |
| 6 | Immediately afterwards , he set off on a journey into Dorset , determined to repay Wordsworth 's visit of two months earlier . |
| 7 | August 1992 sees Tim setting off on a journey much nearer home and this time he 's inviting the wine-loving gourmets of Britain to join him . |
| 8 | After a couple of moves I gained the crest of this and draped a big sling over its tip before setting off on a journey of discovery down the other side of the offending obstacle . |
| 9 | And so Fenella said , ‘ I wish you a safe journey , ’ and was pleased that her voice came out firm and perfectly calm , as if she was quite accustomed to seeing her brother off on a journey to the Court of a Sorceress , which would take him past all manner of weird and darkly enchanted places . |
| 10 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 11 | So they started their ministry off together , and I think it 's something quite special to me and to recognise that we have sent three people off on a journey and three people , two here , have come to the end of a journey and just part of the journey and are beginning to discover that will be discovered in the life of the three human beings , human beings |
| 12 | Setting off on a crash course |
| 13 | The Highlands and Islands may soon be off on a spending spree to boost its amenities and infrastructure with European millions . |
| 14 | He is off on a stravaig past Atholl , looking for cheap horses . |
| 15 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 16 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 17 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 18 | Well the answer is yes but of course landing and taking off on a road is one thing , being able to operate is another one because clearly one needs er fuel , weapons , ground crew and the like but landing on a road in itself is is not difficult . |
| 19 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 20 | In the winter of 1979–80 the Trannon careered off on a course of its own . |
| 21 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 22 | They have been left behind by the economic restructuring of the 1980s , shunted off on a branch line of history and left back in the twilight of the 1970s along with flares and skinheads , a time when demagogues made last-ditch efforts to salvage working-class pride and channel it in a fascist direction . |
| 23 | In desperation , Ari started marking the days off on a chart , just so she could see the rime they had left on the road diminishing . |
| 24 | On the train from Chicago to New York before joining his last ship , he met two women off on a trip to the Big Apple for the shops and the shows , and a night out at Chippindales . |
| 25 | Lots of fun and excitement as Henry 's Cat sets off on a trip to Treasure Island |
| 26 | And when I confessed the other day in the King 's Head that we were off on a trip to Dartington , there were cynical smiles . |
| 27 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 28 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 29 | If he did n't , some clever lawyer would get the boy off on a technicality . |
| 30 | WHEN Tim Barranger and his wife set off on a shopping trip from their home in Ilkley , Yorkshire they asked the inspector on their train for the cheapest day-return ticket to Leeds . |