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 . |