Example sentences of "[pron] went off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 2 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 3 | Straightaway I went off and had a bright red flash put in across the front of my hair . |
| 4 | Well , I went off on holiday to Switzerland and on the way back I suddenly thought : Oh my God , what have I done ? |
| 5 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 6 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 7 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 8 | I did n't expect to see her again until late on Monday — I went off to do some walking for the weekend and was taking an extra day . |
| 9 | When I left the laundry and the kitchen where I received my basic formation as a novice , I went off to university . |
| 10 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
| 11 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 12 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 13 | She took them in during the day and I went off to Bartle 's — that 's the engineering factory in Brick Lane . |
| 14 | I went off men after my husband left but Jim has changed that . |
| 15 | I went off to Kenya to buy lions . |
| 16 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 17 | ‘ Everything seemed to be going well and I looked like finishing well in the points when I went off , all on my own , towards the end . |
| 18 | I pushed hard and I picked up some places , but then in the bad conditions Lehto caught me and I went off into the wet and that was it . ’ |
| 19 | After we 'd satisfied ourselves that there was sufficient prey I went off to walk the terrain . |
| 20 | I went off to circulate . |
| 21 | When I went off that morning Bill did not recognize me . |
| 22 | I went off to America to live in New York where I knew one person . |
| 23 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 24 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 25 | Maybe it had some bearing on Uncle Fred 's last words to me as I went off to do my National Service in the army . |
| 26 | But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses . |
| 27 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 28 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 29 | I went off . |
| 30 | You remember I said I went off looking for Nicola ? ’ |