Example sentences of "[verb] go off in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards .
2 What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did .
3 ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room .
4 It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark .
5 Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market .
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