Example sentences of "not go off " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter is best , though expensive , because unlike vegetable oil , it does not go off . |
| 2 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 3 | He says that automatic alarms that warn of radioactivity on clothes have been ‘ arbitrarily ’ adjusted so that the alarms do not go off too often . |
| 4 | Meanwhile Lieutenant Denis O'Flaherty and Trooper Sherington made a determined effort to reach the warehouse ( 'F' ) with Peter Young , who saw three stick grenades flung towards him in quick succession ; the first two missed and the third did not go off . |
| 5 | Astute politicians do not go off half cocked : they test the water , collect their facts , identify the support systems , undermine the opposition 's case , find the coalitions , understand the ‘ influencers ’ or the roles that carry weight . |
| 6 | Baltaci , noting the conflict between the fact that the medrese had apparently already been founded by 870 and the fact that Mecdi says that Molla Husrev did not go off to Bursa to found the medrese until 877 , suggests that the was written in anticipation of the actual building of the medrese . |
| 7 | In practical terms , we see that in studying a literary text we can not go off and find some singular historical textbook which offers a straightforward , impartial presentation of ‘ what happened ’ . |