Example sentences of "went off [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Martin who took the reins and as he cried , ‘ Gee-up ! you there , you flibbertigibbet ! ’ the horse , as if recognising the voice , tossed its head and went off at a spanking pace down the road , and as they laughed , Harry said , ‘ Would you believe it ! |
| 2 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 3 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 4 | Me , myself , and I. ’ After losing in the Gotcha Pro early that summer on the South Side of Oahu , he went off on a self-destructive bender . |
| 5 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 6 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 7 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |
| 8 | Henry and Jimmy went off on a 48 hour pass with a couple of nurses they had met at a dance in Cambridge , so , feeling decidedly sour , Rosemary and I went into Cambridge on our own on Christmas Eve . |
| 9 | Barkes went off with a torn calf muscle early in the second half , but Mark Butler stretched the lead with a penalty and a drop goal . |
| 10 | Swindon 's right-back Hockaday went off with a fractured cheekbone just before half-time . |
| 11 | The bow went off with a terrible noise , like bones breaking . |
| 12 | He went off with a medium spring to his step and I saw him later with his arms round Donna 's shoulders , which was n't ( as far as I knew ) in his script . |
| 13 | Latus has some experience in the No 9 shirt , including the match at Stockton in December , when he made the switch after Kenyon went off with a dislocated shoulder . |
| 14 | Substitute Andy Payton had a chance after Stuart Ripley went off with a dead leg . |
| 15 | Dan Jackart , the other capped prop , went off with a damaged shoulder in the first half against North Harbour but came on as a replacement for Szabo . |
| 16 | He went off with a lovely bang . ’ |
| 17 | Others record that she patiently concluded the business then before the court , and went off with a reliable escort to hold a council with Bothwell about the taming of Liddesdale and empower him to hold courts in Hermitage itself . |
| 18 | Hotel duty manager George Ashou , who was only 10ft from the blast , said : ‘ The bomb went off with a muffled crump . |
| 19 | The next day , Jellicoe and the guide went off to a nearby village , arranging to meet Bergé and his men on the beach . |
| 20 | We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square . |
| 21 | Mahmoud turned on his heel and went off without a further word . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ammunition , grenades , and demolition explosives went off in a deadly firework display . |
| 24 | The fireworks display that heralded the opening of Antwerp 93 went off like a damp squib . |
| 25 | Then one day Rhoda went off like a damp squib into eternity : and after that it went into a sort of déjà vu double vision , watching Ken and his ex-saxophonist 's widow get together . |