Example sentences of "go [v-ing] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not allowed to go jetting off to the Caribbean , that 's all . |
| 2 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 3 | The Lorrimores , followed by everyone still in the dining room , went dashing off into the dome car , but Emil and I looked at each other , and I said , ‘ How do we warn that train ? ’ |
| 4 | But before you go rushing off to the river to catch a netful of chub , bear in mind that I have said only that chub are easy to catch compared to most other species . |
| 5 | Maud went rushing off down the corridor , but Mildred stopped and looked out of the window to see if there was any evidence of fire . |
| 6 | We go up the hill on the toboggans and you 're meant to use your brakes and one of us did , and we just went flying off into the raging snow . |
| 7 | He went running off after the boy down the tunnel , dodging people and cannoning into others . |
| 8 | At the first sign of the emotional see-saw that life so often presents , you go scurrying off for the goodies that give you comfort . |
| 9 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | We ca n't just go haring off into the city like that . |
| 11 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 12 | The problem is , as each head hits the ground it bursts into a thousand little crabs that go skittering off into the far reaches of my body . |
| 13 | Sitting back to enjoy the mid-morning sun the bobbin on the rod with corn on started jumping up to the butt and a quick strike saw the first fish of the session go screaming off up the lake . |
| 14 | Then I 'd go striding off across the moors to get the both of us out of your hair for a bit , what do you say ? |
| 15 | But he was too late : the knife tipped over the edge and went spinning off into the night . |
| 16 | Many unattached skis went sliding off down the hill at incredible speed . |