Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The expense of necessary heating and drying is not only considerable , but is ultimately hopeless — it is not a tax which in any way augments a person 's living standards , but , like protection money , merely staves off for a little longer an absolute loss . |
2 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
3 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
4 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
5 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
6 | Well it 's quite fun just going off for the odd day cos then he goes off to see Ian , he enjoys that but it was two afternoons last week cos I did Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon |
7 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
8 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
9 | A clear handball , as the replay shows and sure enough a penalty , but then Oxford 's Mike Ford was mysteriously sent off for the offence . |
10 | Yeah , I 'd probably fuck off for a year and do my own thing and come back and maybe take take , maybe start my own business . |
11 | Kallicharran , assuming that the entertainment had been concluded for the day , also set off for the dressing-room . |
12 | Damien and a companion of his choice can now head off for a fabulous hero 's weekend in London . |
13 | as if to underline the point , Malmo completed their regular season by losing 2-0 to relegated Vastra Frolunda , although they now play off for the Swedish title with Norrkoping . |
14 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
15 | Paint on oil-based paint , then partially rub off for an antiqued look . |
16 | My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort . |
17 | It is possible that I even dozed off for a few seconds , exhausted by the day 's work . |
18 | And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break ! |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ 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 . |
22 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
23 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
24 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw . |
27 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
28 | This Pentax weather-resistant camera arrived to be tested at a very opportune moment — I was just about to head off for a surfing weekend in North Cornwall . |
29 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
30 | It all began last November when wrote off for an application form and shortly afterwards they were invited , along with 8,000 other families , to go to Birmingham for an audition . |