Example sentences of "they go off " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question arises : is there something about such jobs that directly causes the people who do them to go off sick more than others ? |
| 2 | you absolutely get them going off but sometimes you actually want to use all 's fair in love and war also actually use those sort of tactics . |
| 3 | You hear them going off . |
| 4 | He watched them go off hand in hand , and then he wandered away across the quarry , heading for the old manager 's office . |
| 5 | She watched them go off together , then went in search of Robert , though she found it hard to believe that he really wanted to talk to her . |
| 6 | Okay there was thirty two baskets brought them all out made them gone off . |
| 7 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 8 | ‘ Then two older boys came along on bikes and one of them went off to get help . ’ |
| 9 | As soon as you get to really like someone , they go off and leave you . |
| 10 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 11 | A male employee said , ‘ I think there 's a lot of drop out for ladies , they go off and have children and then they do n't want to come back . |
| 12 | They go off whistling when it is obvious I 'm not going to give them anything . |
| 13 | you lose control over your partner ( ie they insist on pursuing a time-consuming interest that excludes you , they go off and do their own thing ) . |
| 14 | The following week they go off to their respective schools , to meet the teachers and the group of children they will be working with . |
| 15 | Observations of predatory fish attacking spiny prey reveal that after one experience of even a non-poisonous species the predators are so shocked by the pain inside their mouths that they go off their food for days . |
| 16 | ‘ At this time of the day they go off to collect food , ’ Don Mini said . |
| 17 | they go off to an |
| 18 | These fish tend to settle in well , feeding on daphnia , bloodworm , flake and lettuce , but after a couple of months they go off their food , become very thin and white along the bottom , swim on their heads and eventually die . |
| 19 | The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance . |
| 20 | They go off , one by one on the ritual plank : |
| 21 | They go off and get married . |
| 22 | They go off and tell untruths about the organisations for which they are working — in fact , downright lies — or for which they worked . |
| 23 | And that they , two people , you know somebody every week will collect in all the languages books and take them along er , or the language homework and take them along to their language teacher and the other one will take the history le , homework and take them on to the history teacher , and then they go off to assembly alright ? |
| 24 | Because they go off at everything . |
| 25 | Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this . |
| 26 | And yet , if you join those two inert things together in the right ratios they go off with a very big bang . |
| 27 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |
| 28 | no they go off |
| 29 | they want their evening entertainment , then they go off down , then on down to the clubs . |
| 30 | They go off |