Example sentences of "[pers pn] go off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pushed hard and I picked up some places , but then in the bad conditions Lehto caught me and I went off into the wet and that was it . ’ |
| 2 | I could hardly let you go off on an epic journey all by yourself . |
| 3 | Get up with Mum , have a coffee with her before she went off to the early shift , lay the table , shout up to the little ones to get up or else , put the bacon on the grill , put the beans in the pan , butter the bread , boil the kettle . |
| 4 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |
| 5 | We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square . |
| 6 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 7 | And what do his parents think — him going off to a distant town with a stranger like you ? ’ |
| 8 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 9 | You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian . |
| 10 | That mathematicians had a very very hard time and they got a lot of things wrong they went off down the wrong track for hundreds of years before |
| 11 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 13 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 14 | His restless spirit could not settle to his legal studies and in 1809 , having obtained a commission from a merchant company to act as their agent and establish trade agreements , he went off to the Mediterranean area . |
| 15 | Me , myself , and I. ’ After losing in the Gotcha Pro early that summer on the South Side of Oahu , he went off on a self-destructive bender . |
| 16 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 17 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 18 | He went off with a medium spring to his step and I saw him later with his arms round Donna 's shoulders , which was n't ( as far as I knew ) in his script . |
| 19 | He went off with a lovely bang . ’ |
| 20 | Yesterday , it went off under an uncomfortable-looking Government bench as the Chancellor delivered an austerity package that raised taxes directly and indirectly and carried a message for the times . |
| 21 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |