Example sentences of "went off [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months .
2	Georgiades , vexed , went off on a search of his own .
3	The plastic went off with a smack of solid air that stabbed pain into his ears and moved the container next to him .
4	She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’
5	He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday .
6	Rob Andrew went off with a bang on the nose which needed an X-ray , although it was later revealed that there was no fracture , while his replacement Stuart Barnes had 12 stitches in a head wound caused by a stray boot .
7	‘ He went off with a lexicographer with cross-eyes and knock-knees and webbed feet — a duck . ’
8	He went off with a list of ideas , and was later observed totally engrossed , having covered two sides of A4 .
9	Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around .
10	‘ He stayed in his room when his wife went off for a jaunt round Oxford , remember ?
11	Then they all went off for a visit to the zoo
12	We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke .
13	I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust .
14	‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] .
15	The service at the crematorium went off like a house on fire and on returning home I received a phone call from Pybus to say that , at a meeting of directors , Carter and Tilley had quit .

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