Example sentences of "[pron] go off [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I go off to work each day , ’ he said slowly , ‘ Dorothy comes out to the car with me to say goodbye . |
| 2 | I mean I go off cleaning in a pair of tracksuit bottoms and her er |
| 3 | You remember I said I went off looking for Nicola ? ’ |
| 4 | I did n't expect to see her again until late on Monday — I went off to do some walking for the weekend and was taking an extra day . |
| 5 | Maybe it had some bearing on Uncle Fred 's last words to me as I went off to do my National Service in the army . |
| 6 | I went off to circulate . |
| 7 | I never complained as I went off to watch West Ham that afternoon , having scoffed his portion of chips . |
| 8 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 9 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 10 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 11 | After we 'd satisfied ourselves that there was sufficient prey I went off to walk the terrain . |
| 12 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 13 | Luiz introduced his mother-in-law and his wife , then excused himself to go off to help distribute drinks . |
| 14 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 15 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 16 | ‘ When you went off walking yesterday morning . |
| 17 | ‘ When the pair of you went off to find your tent , what happened ? ’ |
| 18 | It may well have been used to make bows for local archers who went off to fight in the battle of Agincourt . |
| 19 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |
| 20 | Now considering there was at least 1,000 miles of sand between Baghdad and Damascus , everybody who heard this remark had hysterics , everybody except for the stupid young officer who went off to think about this . |
| 21 | if we get packets sent The butchers If you get one thing set in your mind what you 're going to do , and you know , you go off to get it , and then er if you do n't manage it , then you have to start again . |
| 22 | And we only found it by chance , you know how you go off to think oh I 'll , I 'll go and find a coffee or something , and we found this restaurant at lunch time and had a coffee there and we looked at the menu and , you know , we , we could n't believe it ! |
| 23 | So she went off to go doggedly through the full factual screening of Posi 's data of Fraxilly . |
| 24 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 25 | Tom Tremayne had seen to that and Liza , irresponsible and hedonistic as she was , could not quite see herself leaving Harriet holding the baby while she went off to undertake some kind of training . |
| 26 | This was Elisabeth Lee ; she invited us down to look round while she went off to collect her child . |
| 27 | She went off to attend to her cultures , and Reynolds handed in the form and the catalogue to the copy clerk . |
| 28 | With a friendly pat on his arm , she went off to join the dancing , and practically walked into the waiting Feargal . |
| 29 | Unfortunately for him , his feelings were not reciprocated and she went off to work in America . |
| 30 | Plenty of time , she had declared , in which for her to catch her breath before , at some time prior to eleven , she went off to keep her highly valued appointment with Mr Gajdusek on Friday morning . |