Example sentences of "go off [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 2 | ‘ Therese does n't want him to go off to paint the Belgian ambassador 's wife . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 4 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 5 | White faced the official carpeting , defused the attacks with a firm but polite dignity , and went off to catch the next train unaffected by the experience . |