Example sentences of "[art] [noun] go off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bow went off with a terrible noise , like bones breaking . |
| 2 | The Boozebuster went off without a hitch . |
| 3 | Hotel duty manager George Ashou , who was only 10ft from the blast , said : ‘ The bomb went off with a muffled crump . |
| 4 | With soloist , conductor and orchestra on this kind of form , it is no surprise that the Finale goes off like a rocket . |
| 5 | The plastic went off with a smack of solid air that stabbed pain into his ears and moved the container next to him . |
| 6 | The next day , Jellicoe and the guide went off to a nearby village , arranging to meet Bergé and his men on the beach . |
| 7 | In the House of Lords , the argument went off on a rather different tack . |
| 8 | The service at the crematorium went off like a house on fire and on returning home I received a phone call from Pybus to say that , at a meeting of directors , Carter and Tilley had quit . |
| 9 | The performance went off without a hitch and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra , with Dr Otto Klemperer conducting , played brilliantly . |
| 10 | In fact , the police force lacked access to any digital information and although the evacuation went off without a hitch there is little doubt that a GIS containing the Chinese postman algorithm could have provided efficient routes and also have guaranteed that no road was missed from the warning sweep . |
| 11 | Similar ceremonies throughout the county went off without a hitch because a strike threatened by the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education was called off . |
| 12 | The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools . |
| 13 | After many doubts as to whether the event would go as planned , or if a significant number of aircraft would turn-up , the celebrations held over the weekend went off without a hitch and the whole town was enveloped in Norseman fever or Norsemania , as the local press called it . |
| 14 | But the display went off without a hitch . |
| 15 | A BOMB went off outside a north London tube station yesterday . |