Example sentences of "have [adv] gone off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such arguments may seem trivial when bodies as thoughtful as the Church of England have taken it upon themselves to ponder the issue of the use of nuclear weapons ; but the bomb has not gone off and when it has receded into the background we will be left with the demand for electricity . |
| 2 | Have to be careful it has n't gone off . |
| 3 | ‘ He would never have just gone off , ’ said Keith 's father , driving instructor Graham Lockyer , 45 , of Stoneleigh , near Epsom , Surrey . |
| 4 | Fernando was n't the proud man she 'd thought he was and Steve was a creep to have just gone off without letting her know why , with whom and for how long . |
| 5 | ‘ She was a normal , sensible girl who had not gone off before and when she was reported missing we always feared this could be the outcome . ’ |
| 6 | They 've just gone off somewhere and left it behind . |
| 7 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 8 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
| 9 | The girls would have stayed undiscovered while parents David and Sharon Schoo spent a week in Acapulco , Mexico , if a smoke alarm in their home near Chicago had n't gone off . |
| 10 | It 's not , the beer had n't gone off ? |
| 11 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 12 | The docs have all gone off long ago . ’ |
| 13 | They 're looking for the womankind who have all gone off with the Romans . |
| 14 | They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children . |
| 15 | ‘ My mother 's just gone off with Rupert Campbell-Black , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Jackie 's just gone off now . |
| 17 | without asking , it comes up on the er have er , I 'll ask her first hello it 's the G P G engineer love , yeah , er my pager 's just gone off , is it okay to use my telephone just to answer it please ? |
| 18 | No and Sue 's just gone off sick , yeah . |
| 19 | At which point I turn and see that they have n't gone off at all , that I 'm sitting on the fourth step , the bottom step , right up against the barrier . |
| 20 | Just to make sure they have n't gone off . |
| 21 | She 's quite gone off , 't is such a pity ; |