Example sentences of "go off [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 2 | Have you ever noticed the response when a car alarm goes off in a busy street ? |
| 3 | As he was all poshed up in his best uniform , ready to go off on a 48-hour pass , he was not best pleased at this turn of events . |
| 4 | ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction . |
| 5 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 6 | ‘ It hardly shows , ’ said Cadfael thoughtfully , going off at a surprising tangent . |
| 7 | And what do his parents think — him going off to a distant town with a stranger like you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She ca n't be going off to a big party before the Championship . |
| 9 | You all thought it was great fun — going off for a hot weather holiday ! |
| 10 | He 'd often do that , ’ she added defensively , ‘ go off with a great pile of scripts , looking for his next show . |
| 11 | Our second daughter Rachel had gone off to a finishing school near Florence , while Ailsa and her painter husband had bought a house in the country near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk . |
| 12 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 13 | gone off with a long-distance lorry driver . |
| 14 | According to some recent work of mine , the answer is that they will go off into a little baby universe of their own . |
| 15 | It was Martin who took the reins and as he cried , ‘ Gee-up ! you there , you flibbertigibbet ! ’ the horse , as if recognising the voice , tossed its head and went off at a spanking pace down the road , and as they laughed , Harry said , ‘ Would you believe it ! |
| 16 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 17 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 18 | Me , myself , and I. ’ After losing in the Gotcha Pro early that summer on the South Side of Oahu , he went off on a self-destructive bender . |
| 19 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 20 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 21 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |
| 22 | Barkes went off with a torn calf muscle early in the second half , but Mark Butler stretched the lead with a penalty and a drop goal . |
| 23 | Swindon 's right-back Hockaday went off with a fractured cheekbone just before half-time . |
| 24 | The bow went off with a terrible noise , like bones breaking . |
| 25 | He went off with a medium spring to his step and I saw him later with his arms round Donna 's shoulders , which was n't ( as far as I knew ) in his script . |
| 26 | Latus has some experience in the No 9 shirt , including the match at Stockton in December , when he made the switch after Kenyon went off with a dislocated shoulder . |
| 27 | Substitute Andy Payton had a chance after Stuart Ripley went off with a dead leg . |
| 28 | Dan Jackart , the other capped prop , went off with a damaged shoulder in the first half against North Harbour but came on as a replacement for Szabo . |
| 29 | He went off with a lovely bang . ’ |
| 30 | Others record that she patiently concluded the business then before the court , and went off with a reliable escort to hold a council with Bothwell about the taming of Liddesdale and empower him to hold courts in Hermitage itself . |