Example sentences of "have go off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ! ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 5 | I would have to go off to the lavatory , come back and start the same scene with a variation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 8 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 9 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Barry had gone off up the road on his bike . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 14 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 17 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 18 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 19 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
| 20 | 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 . |