Example sentences of "gone off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He seems to have gone off into the wilds of Turkey on some dig or other , and got so interested that he forgot to come back . |
| 2 | Brought them down here and then gone off along the cliff path with them . |
| 3 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 4 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 5 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's gone off to the High Court , sir . ’ |
| 7 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 8 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 9 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 10 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 11 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 12 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 13 | They 're looking for the womankind who have all gone off with the Romans . |
| 14 | Fear of doors , entrances , gates etc. often occurs when a horse has been ( unwisely ) tied to a gate and has gone off with the gate ! ! |
| 15 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 16 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 17 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 18 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said Finn , and Lydia decided that even had he not gone off with the duck their relationship would have had no future . |
| 19 | The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal . |
| 20 | Barry had gone off up the road on his bike . |
| 21 | Why had he not continued climbing over the gate , said good-night , and gone off down the hill ? |
| 22 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
| 23 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |
| 24 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 25 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 26 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 27 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |