Example sentences of "he go off [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning .
2 I was about five when Dad started taking me with him when he went off to the allotment and I remember how , on a Wednesday evening , we went to Johnny Lampard 's yard in Exeter Street .
3 When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family .
4 Shortly afterwards , he went off to the Demob Centre and I left dismally on my last posting to Scampton .
5 His restless spirit could not settle to his legal studies and in 1809 , having obtained a commission from a merchant company to act as their agent and establish trade agreements , he went off to the Mediterranean area .
6 But she maintained that he went off to the Supersight factory with Brian Harley for several days .
7 He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed .
8 He went off to the kitchen , leaving Leonora apprehensive about the rest of the evening .
9 He went off to the kitchen and returned with a carrier-bag .
10 I see so there would be if he was this would be at the end when you know this was n't he did n't ever do anything like that before he went off to the w w during the war ?
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12 Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover .
13 Dog at his heels as he went off down the road .
14 With that he went off down the bank as though all the hounds of hell were after him .
15 He went off down the street just as McCrea 's flailing hand missed his jacket by six inches .
16 He went off down the street , stepping lightly over the famous steps , which , without Mrs Brocklebank to clean them , looked sticky and stained .
17 He went off into the kitchen and came back with an apple pie .
18 He went off into the kitchen .
19 He went off in the direction of some green doors that bore the legend ‘ Narcissus Clothing ’ , muttering , ‘ That 'll do , that 'll do . ’
20 He went off in the direction of the river and the dark bulk of the flatboat .
21 ‘ Tuesday was the day he went off in the van and came back with a bruised face ; presumably you 've got a record of the people he called on that day ?
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