Example sentences of "[pers pn] go off [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 2 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 3 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 4 | Because usually you go off to a restaurant and if there 's twenty of you you ca n't sit together can you ? |
| 5 | In fact , she went off to a jazz club with other musician friends that very evening , to drown her sorrows , and met your father , who was playing in the band . ’ |
| 6 | Ricky has left , she went off with a bloke ten years younger than her |
| 7 | She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’ |
| 8 | And then and then like you know and then she went off in a mood cos I cos I go to let's me sit opposite you like hinting like oh I do n't want to sit there . |
| 9 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 10 | I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He went off to a shoot . |
| 13 | He went off to a pub , spent half an hour with his mates , and then reported to the casualty department and was dead within a quarter of an hour . |
| 14 | He went off to a club where they wanted him to prove his age at the door ; it never crossed his mind that anyone else was under age . |
| 15 | Adam paid the man and he went off on a bicycle , still wearing the knotted handkerchief on his head . |
| 16 | When he went off on a week 's holiday , I was asked to stand in experimentally for him . |
| 17 | The better things presumed to be in store for Glasser when he went off as a scholarship boy to a glamorous university in the South of England are , in a sense , the subject of Gorbals Boy at Oxford , his second volume of autobiography . |
| 18 | He went off into a reverie , dreaming of proleptic man . |
| 19 | She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire . |
| 20 | He went off with a list of ideas , and was later observed totally engrossed , having covered two sides of A4 . |
| 21 | He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday . |
| 22 | ‘ He went off with a lexicographer with cross-eyes and knock-knees and webbed feet — a duck . ’ |
| 23 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 24 | ‘ It went off inside a bin which shot into the air sending clouds of smoke everywhere . |