Example sentences of "went off [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment .
2 Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped
3 He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat .
4 As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre .
5 You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian .
6 Get up with Mum , have a coffee with her before she went off to the early shift , lay the table , shout up to the little ones to get up or else , put the bacon on the grill , put the beans in the pan , butter the bread , boil the kettle .
7 He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed .
8 His restless spirit could not settle to his legal studies and in 1809 , having obtained a commission from a merchant company to act as their agent and establish trade agreements , he went off to the Mediterranean area .
9 Eventually a few candles were lit , the band started playing , the couples uncoupled and went off to the back room , and the party went on .
10 Angrily , Bernice picked herself up and went off down the winding path .
11 That mathematicians had a very very hard time and they got a lot of things wrong they went off down the wrong track for hundreds of years before
12 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 .
13 The bomb went off in the public gallery , destroying the visitors ' area and blowing a hole through an external wall .
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