Example sentences of "go off in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you ever noticed the response when a car alarm goes off in a busy street ? |
| 2 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |
| 3 | Eleven tricks made for a very good score , as several other declarers had actually contrived to go off in the same contract . |
| 4 | When a strong concentration of sodium chloride is placed near to paramecium they turn and go off in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |
| 9 | Ammunition , grenades , and demolition explosives went off in a deadly firework display . |
| 10 | Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury . |
| 11 | The bomb went off in the public gallery , destroying the visitors ' area and blowing a hole through an external wall . |