Example sentences of "[verb] go off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 2 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 3 | Fear of doors , entrances , gates etc. often occurs when a horse has been ( unwisely ) tied to a gate and has gone off with the gate ! ! |
| 4 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 5 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 6 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |
| 7 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
| 8 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 9 | I would have to go off to the lavatory , come back and start the same scene with a variation . |
| 10 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 11 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 12 | The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal . |
| 13 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 14 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |
| 15 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 16 | Eleven tricks made for a very good score , as several other declarers had actually contrived to go off in the same contract . |
| 17 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 18 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 19 | Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market . |
| 20 | ‘ He seems to have gone off into the wilds of Turkey on some dig or other , and got so interested that he forgot to come back . |
| 21 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 22 | Rockets continued to go off outside the building . |
| 23 | Barry had gone off up the road on his bike . |
| 24 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 25 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 26 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 29 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 30 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |