Example sentences of "went [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I went off music for a while . |
| 2 | Terry gave him a different word and he went off content . |
| 3 | Such was the confusion that the BBC , who had spent three hours covering the race , only just managed to catch the men 's finish and went off air without knowing the second and third-placed finishers , despite a warning on Friday that such an eventuality was possible . |
| 4 | It 's amazing people still remember , I mean it went off air over eight years ago . |
| 5 | While the ‘ Last Word ’ column in The Independent on Sunday stated : ‘ Last night the service went off air because the BBC can not afford the annual budget of £5m and is pursuing a policy of cost cutting . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , there was only a 50 per cent success rate — the experiment went off half-cocked . |
| 7 | ‘ 'Scuse me , sir — when the meeting finished and the other gentlemen went off home , the gates was left open for a few minutes . |
| 8 | Eva went off home to finish unpacking her suitcases . |
| 9 | They actually went off route and were not seen again . |
| 10 | Lyn says , ‘ He went off sex and I used to carry on and on about whether he was after other women . |
| 11 | He told Frankie to take care of me and so we went off hand in hand . |
| 12 | The APU power was used for engine starting and to provide emergency power if one of the main generators went off line . |
| 13 | Called to identify the body just before I went off duty . |
| 14 | A doctor came , and said the same thing , then she went off duty for lunch . |
| 15 | She was woken at seven by the night nurses who had to tidy her up before they went off duty . |
| 16 | In Casualty we did not report for duty , we came aboard ; we worked watches , not shifts ; when we went off duty we went ashore ; on our days off we took the liberty boat . |
| 17 | I had no doubt they 'd turn up within a short time , so I went off duty . |
| 18 | A small dark-haired girl — she looked very much like you , actually — was admitted during that Friday evening , after I went off duty . |
| 19 | David did n't arrive , and she went off duty feeling a little bereft . |
| 20 | We sat in the shade of a wall while a boy went for help . |
| 21 | She began a vigorous slapping of hands and face while Melissa , on legs that would barely carry her , stepped shakily over the inert form and went for help . |
| 22 | Those few who consciously risked the consequences of disregarding it , or allowed themselves unthinkingly to slide into overindebtedness , could still suffer the degradation of what went for life behind the walls of the Marshalsea or the Kidderminster dungeon . |
| 23 | Lord Hesketh , the chief whip in the Lords , also went for flower power in the form of a pink carnation set off nicely by a red bow tie and cream shirt . |
| 24 | No , I went for contact lenses , he , he just said look , there are lots of ones on the , the market , but I suggest you have these , bloody shape of them , |
| 25 | On June 18 , he collapsed and died in the arms of a fellow customer in one of the Stroud pubs where he went for company to chat quietly about cricket ( never in an egotistical way ) and for a drink to help him forget . |
| 26 | Non fiction books and sheet music went for salvage . |
| 27 | to start off and then erm , I think they went for work permits or something |
| 28 | But about half of US R and D was financed by the federal government , 80 per cent of which went for space and military purposes . |
| 29 | Medical confidentiality you 're you 're just sitting there with bloody a private conversation we that I went for treatment with my doctor , and and the recommendations that she 's given me in , well well what 's the point er what er what 's going on ? |
| 30 | The remains of the iron overshot water wheel eventually went for scrap in the late 1960s . |