Example sentences of "go off to [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
2 | The material for printing usually goes off to the printer on the Tuesday , when the noticeboards are changed . |
3 | She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back . |
4 | Shortly beyond Huswil , at Gettnau ( 10km , 6 miles from Huttwil ) road 23 continues straight ahead east to Sursee ( on the Sempacher Lake ) , but take instead a branch that goes off to the right for Willisau , a thirteenth-century foundation . |
5 | He had screeched to a halt in the residents ' parking bay in an unimpressed Hereford Road , let himself in , banged on his own door and , keeping his distance , ordered Jacqui to go off to the pictures for the afternoon . |
6 | We 'd camp next to the meeting and go off to the pub on the Saturday night , halfway through the decathlon . |
7 | I was only able to come because all the men have gone off to a meeting with Romanies from other camps . |
8 | This will be a normal working day for the man and after work he might go off to the pub for a drink with his mates . |
9 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
10 | When Dad went off to the pub with the bottles the following day I followed him . |
11 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
12 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
13 | Taking a hint from the fame and antiquity of Egyptian flax working , Roberts went off to the banks of the Nile to study the Temple of Karnak , and came back to build Mr Marshall a factory in like fashion , which soon became known , naturally enough , as the Temple Mill . |
14 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
15 | Dudley , after years of trying to get redress by law , went off to the Continent in a huff ( and a fancy woman ) where the Emperor created him a duke and overlooked the fancy woman . |
16 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |