Example sentences of "[subord] he go off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1673 , he thought that too many of his supporters were being exposed to danger by his presence so he went off to Ireland for a cooling-down period . |
| 2 | Supposing he did say goodbye to his commission , supposing he was selected , supposing he went off to Russia or Finland or wherever it was without even seeing her . |
| 3 | Jim was the star of 10 Carry Ons before he went off to America to become a Broadway star . |
| 4 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 5 | And I hated it when he went off to Italy like that , without telling me . |
| 6 | We stayed friends even though he went to university and I did n't , even though he went off to Nineveh and Distant Ophir and I did n't , even though I went into the Bank and had a steady job while he flitted from one bit of temporary work to another and eventually ended up teaching English as a foreign language in a side street off the Edgware Road . |