Example sentences of "off i went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I carried it carefully like this , arm round the waist you see and off I went up the road for about forty fifty yards and put one in . |
| 2 | Anyway , I was told to accompany David on the Express if I could get a visa and off I went to Washington DC to apply for one and they told me absolutely not — I could n't have one — go away . |
| 3 | So , off I went to Tokyo and spent days in the Russian Embassy with the RCA Tokyo man , Mr Yamamoto , but still they would n't give me one . |
| 4 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 5 | So off I went to the doctor 's , six o'clock , and he examined me shoulder . |
| 6 | So off I went to Brownies , |
| 7 | Well I said I think I 'll go to the theatre and off I went to the theatre . |
| 8 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 9 | Anyway , so off I went with nothing . |