Example sentences of "go off [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He goes off again when I give him his cloth back .
2 So now they 're saying if she does n't , if she goes off again without her mother 's consent then they 'll take her into care .
3 It can go off bloody fire alarm goes off again
4 But he goes off just before a ship sails , without telling anyone .
5 ‘ There will be a Euro commissioner from the sport 's governing body present so we will all be on our toes to make sure everything goes off just right . ’
6 ‘ There will be a Euro commissioner from the sport 's governing body present so we will all be on our toes to make sure everything goes off just right . ’
7 So he 's rushing around and flapping this morning before he goes off just before nine .
8 One of them , Mr Bob Monkhouse , the entertainer , said : ‘ Nothing ever happens here and we never see the police unless our burglar alarm goes off unexpectedly . ’
9 Mine always goes off whenever I 'm grilling anything at all .
10 Personally , I do not find it objectionable , and in any case the smell goes off very quickly when it comes into contact with the soil and bacteria get to work on it .
11 and the the that goes off there .
12 Yeah a buzzer goes off though does n't it ?
13 It goes off ever they look at them now .
14 Caresses can keep you warm — even hot — but heating goes off everywhere in the small hours .
15 So she goes off okay .
16 Erm You know the ring er the r er roundabout as you go down Monkgate , er one one of the l the roads goes off to Huntington Road and the other one is is Heworth Green and then the other road goes off now to Sainsburys .
17 it , it cuts down like that , then it goes off then it starts again , then it goes off and then goes
18 If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place .
19 ‘ And last night , ’ Rainbow continues , ‘ at the disco , she told me she had to go off somewhere in a hurry , and disappeared . ’
20 Definitely , yes , and you , you and Dave could have come up and er Carla , perhaps not Lee , but , you know , he may have wanted to go off somewhere else , erm , we could all have bunked down on what spare space there was and I was going to do a very primitive almost medieval , middle ages sort of Christmas
21 On Saturday , Payton fluffed a simple chance then regained his composure to score the goal that ensured victory and finished up having to change his jersey because it was stained with the blood of a cut that required him to go off temporarily for stitches .
22 ‘ We knew we had to go off fairly fast , ’ she said .
23 But she 's ready to go off really , she probably would have done if Robert had n't tipped the milk everywhere !
24 I used to go off about eight o'clock in the morning .
25 Luke , the Siberian Husky , belongs to my friend — a romantic novelist , who sometimes needs to go off alone to research her books .
26 Never known it to go off before .
27 She could not believe that Pat was ready to go off now , at this thrilling moment when fabulous happenings seemed imminent .
28 Yeah , I said it 's due to go off now , I said , half past three and we waited and waited and he said well it 's ten to four by me he said and I have n't heard one .
29 Hello tape recorder , you seemed to go off there for a while , I 'm just checking that you 're still working again , thanks very much .
30 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
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