Example sentences of "i go off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend .
2 I do n't — I just say thank you and goodbye , then I go off up the road .
3 I would die first — leaving him to die on stage while I went off into the wings . ’
4 I went off to the doctors , she said I had and I was upset
5 But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses .
6 He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 No I went off in the car with They climbed over the fence .
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