Example sentences of "going [to-vb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In other words , ’ Cranston half whispered to Athelstan , ‘ the fellow is asking us when we are going to bugger off . ’ |
| 2 | Quite strange but as soon as he 's paid for for the goods and got the goods the chap 's going to go off looking for another . |
| 3 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 4 | Mm , er what to think , oh I ca n't think of any words , oh we 're going to go off for an interview now anyway . |
| 5 | To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy . |
| 6 | ‘ I tell you , I did n't know she was going to fall off , did I ? ’ |
| 7 | It 's so damn cold I think my bollocks are going to fall off . ’ |
| 8 | Kath was terrified , but there was no way she was going to fall off unless she took Jack with her ! |
| 9 | you think it 's going to fall off do n't you ? |
| 10 | Nails , getting the taste of it , stopped being terrified and began to keep his eyes open long enough to judge the thoroughbred 's stride as he approached a jump and to know when he was going to stand off and when he was going to put a quick one in . |
| 11 | Clearly , it is important to consider each of the ways in which you can safeguard your equipment because it is no use avoiding all the flying hazards if you are going to write off your glider on the ground . |
| 12 | So it 's hardly likely they 're going to write off their star when the ink is barely dry on his $50 million contract ! |
| 13 | BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect . |
| 14 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 15 | After much soul searching , he decided that the only way he was going to come off was to be totally separated from the drug scene . |
| 16 | Is my nail going to my nail going to come off , mum ? |
| 17 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 18 | Obviously , I 'm just giving you the down-side , if you 're going to be there in your office , and you know you 're going to be there , you 're not going to dash off , or if you are , you can hear your phone ringing , erm it 's very , very handy , and in fact it 's smoother , because the person phoning in gets to speak to the person they want to speak to , not half a day , half a week later , alright ? |
| 19 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 20 | That 's if we 're not going to set off the alarm system ! ’ |
| 21 | I 'm going to set off a flare . ’ |
| 22 | First thing next morning I was going to fire off a letter , I thought , when I heard something . |
| 23 | As well as standard black , blue or red leads , they do fluorescent orange and mint green ( no-one 's going to walk off with those by accident ) , a beautiful translucent pink lead with the copper shielding visible underneath and , funkiest of all , red/green and black/red cotton-wound cables , looking rather like climbing rope or the lead on your Gran 's old toaster . |
| 24 | He simply moved out from between the cars as if he was going to walk off and Maggie took two aggressive steps forward . |
| 25 | You 're not going to walk off now into the rising dawn . |
| 26 | ‘ I had no idea he was going to storm off and try to find her there and then , did I ? ’ |
| 27 | Fancy telling them it 's me no wonder it 's going to put off . |
| 28 | I say to him [ husband ] I 'm going to clear off for the day and you can do it all one day , and you 'll see what it 's like . |
| 29 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 30 | I mean I 've just come through there and I had a car today and a girl was telling me her father erm opened his door last week er cataract and the , the wife , the granny blind too and there , the man from the water board was just going to switch off your water , just okay if I check your taps , three hundred pounds out the house |