Example sentences of "to go off and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to go off and cover Greenham Common and Sizewell and the radiation in Australia like everybody else . |
| 2 | You had to go off and make his nosh did n't you ? |
| 3 | has having enough opportunity to go off and make a second marriage , which I do n't deny them but they must accept their responsibilities . |
| 4 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 5 | And , as the rain got worse during the rounds I thought someone was going to have to go off and build an ark . |
| 6 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 7 | erm if , if you know you , you felt you wanted to go off and do th start the professional social work training well that would probably be alright . |
| 8 | and we could maybe find someone else to go off and do it with |
| 9 | First of all , presumably , you lose your normal time structure of having to go off and do something on a regular basis . |
| 10 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't expect me to go off and spy in Russia , do you ? |
| 12 | ‘ We had built up the kind of company my father could leave to go off and direct a film for five months without worrying , ’ says Brian . |
| 13 | Sometimes I 'd have to go off and strip off to fight straight after a caddying session , off the course , drop the bag and on to the fairground . |
| 14 | But though Minton , in turn , often treated him like a mere house-boy , giving him money to go off and buy the food which he afterwards cooked , Ricky carried out his duties with considerable charm . |
| 15 | In other words , she had to go off and find places for herself and then fly back to me . |
| 16 | Mr Clinton 's February budget foreshadowed $16.4 billion of unspecified savings over five years , and the Treasury department was told to go off and find them . |
| 17 | The insurers now have groups of approved repairers and it is often easier for a customer to use those , than to go off and find their own repairer . |
| 18 | There 's this panda and he 's really bored with , I mean he 's , he 's getting no sex so he breaks out of erm London Zoo to go off and find a partner . |
| 19 | And if that gentleman wants to go off and have and and marry again and raise more children he should still not leave his |
| 20 | They may like , like the rest of the country , to go off and have their holidays occasionally , but they would like a permanent place on which their caravan can rest . |
| 21 | Vendors simply have n't had the time to go off and develop very proprietary offerings , yet . |
| 22 | Vendors simply have n't had the time to go off and develop very proprietary offerings , yet . |
| 23 | Many of the Legation servants wanted to go off and fight , but it was essential that they should stay and help . |
| 24 | With a single currency in place , that could no more happen than the Government of the United Kingdom could today allow Wales or Scotland to go off and fight a war of its own . |
| 25 | Many would-be newspaper lensmen might assume that before each job the photographer gets a very precise brief from someone like Dermot O'Shea , and that all they have to do is to go off and get the shot . |
| 26 | you probably at least know enough to go off and get started |
| 27 | He 'd told her to go off and get married when that lieutenant whose name he could never recall had asked her . |
| 28 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning we were trying to persuade poor old Eddy to go off and enjoy himself on a facilities trip to the Persian Gulf … |
| 29 | The Princesse sighed and then with a smile urged the girls to go off and unpack before having a swim . |
| 30 | It turns out the inventor by then had come to the conclusion that ‘ I really ought to go off and look at something else now . ’ |