Example sentences of "[prep] go off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had begun the day before , the suggestion of going off on their own , hiring a car . |
| 2 | There is n't much more we can do , short of going off to Istanbul in person to try and find his tracks . |
| 3 | I even thought of going off to Australia , but I re-sat my exams , went back to college and after a bit of nightclubbing eventually got into the gym just to get fit again . |
| 4 | ‘ What do you think Father and Mother would say if they knew you were even thinking of going off with those kids — and at this time of night ! |
| 5 | Robert and Carol , who also have a son , Daniel , and another daughter Emma , had warned Johanna of the dangers of going off with strangers . |
| 6 | Then he accused me of going off with everyone there , which was totally untrue . |
| 7 | You find out what 's wrong with what you 've done and sort of go off in another direction , or maybe follow the same direction slightly and veer off . |
| 8 | As for going off at tangents , my dear , I do it myself , hormone balance notwithstanding . |
| 9 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 10 | Deafness , however , did not prevent him from going off to South Africa and taking part in the Boer War . |
| 11 | How will we keep food from going off without the use of refrigerators ? |
| 12 | There was no point in going off like a stone from a catapult . |
| 13 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 14 | After Peter Russell had slotted over a neat dropped goal on the Dungannon 22 , McGarry , before going off with a nose injury swung the game again in Dungannon 's favour with his final penalty of the match . |
| 15 | Shaw was one of the star pupils of Vera Volkova , who taught both the company and school from 1943 to 1950 , before going off to Copenhagen where for 25 years she revolutionised , and Russianised , the style of the Royal Danes . |
| 16 | A year later , having done a super job as Editorial Assistant before going off to university last autumn , we finally got around to organising the lesson ! |
| 17 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 18 | By the time I was ten , Granpa allowed me to lay out the morning wares on the barrow before going off to school for the day . |
| 19 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 20 | Males , therefore , generally wait until the female has started to lay her eggs before going off in search of a second mate , since females rarely mate again once laying has begun . |
| 21 | He 's taken to going off on one or other of his ships — quite reasonably , because he is managing director of the shipping company . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean by going off with Micky ? ’ |
| 23 | He has been soundly scourged , verbally , by the girl , and can only respond by going off to Mome Elwis , and giving her another verbose and self-pitying plea ( lines 39 – 62 ) , repetitiously anticipating his own death if his sexual desires are not gratified . |
| 24 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 25 | Could I also give Mr a bit more thinking time by going off on another angle ? |
| 26 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |