Example sentences of "[vb base] go off " in BNC.

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1 ‘ So if you want to go off on your own for a bit , and you 'll trust me , ’ said Emma , ‘ I can look after Ruth . ’
2 Oh no I do n't do that , I dare n't it 's week days and I usually want to go off back to sleep
3 which balloon has the mouse let go off and you have to follow them .
4 With the emergence of Pop , bells of recognition begin to go off , but otherwise it can be difficult going .
5 The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters .
6 Why do you think it is that erm that the reputation of the flats has been er I suppose gone off and I mean early on back in the early seventies , erm the flats were quite an attractive place to come to , it was n't even that easy to get on the flats .
7 Now try to imagine turning into that aisle , all those bodily reactions start to go off , and yet there is nothing there — no lion , nothing for you to be terrified about and yet your heart is beating faster , you 're sweating , feeling faint , breathing rapidly , and so on .
8 Yeah they do go off .
9 Someone 's chucked it down there and they 've gone off and forgot it and they do n't even know who I am .
10 ‘ They 've gone off with someone . ’
11 Think I 've gone off with someone else .
12 ‘ It 's a pity you 've gone off fucking , ’ continued Nubenehem when the customer had left .
13 Now they 've gone off to other groups handing out food , like Food for Work and the Mothers ' Clubs where they do weaving and knitting and things like that . ’
14 I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling .
15 They 've gone off !
16 They 've gone off together now , another one joined in now , hello .
17 They 've gone off into Orpington and they , get this tennis racket and we have n't seen them since .
18 No , they 've gone off !
19 they 've gone off !
20 I ate a lot of them , but they 've gone off , they 'd really had
21 The bakery , and you 're expecting a delivery , especially like on produce , and then you have to go off , or something like that , get people stacking right up .
22 ‘ A few have gone off already .
23 Several bombs have gone off in Latvia ; the locals think these were planted to give the army a possible excuse to move in .
24 Hundreds have gone off ‘ to find themselves ’ before settling down to a career or further studies .
25 Fifth thought : shit , this is the turret of the Cathedral ; and it 's dark because it 's late and the floods have gone off .
26 I was only able to come because all the men have gone off to a meeting with Romanies from other camps .
27 No we 're not all rushing off all over the place although the men and s some of the women you know we have gone off and they still I mean the men were in South Wales last week .
28 I think they have gone off to tell the rest of their family what happened . ’
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