Example sentences of "[noun sg] go off [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has having enough opportunity to go off and make a second marriage , which I do n't deny them but they must accept their responsibilities . |
| 2 | But though Minton , in turn , often treated him like a mere house-boy , giving him money to go off and buy the food which he afterwards cooked , Ricky carried out his duties with considerable charm . |
| 3 | The cabin light goes off and I feel some connection again with the dark desert . |
| 4 | Then the light went off and the door opened . |
| 5 | It just falls all over , all round me like a firework going off and floating down the sky . |
| 6 | It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot . |
| 7 | This was the line that commuters had been asked to switch to avoid the chaos caused by the night 's earlier bombings … at Reading , where one device went off and another was defused , and at Basingstoke , where the device was also defused . |
| 8 | Opera House : The bomb went off as security forces were still clearing the area . |
| 9 | The bomb went off when Carol learned of her trip being cancelled . |
| 10 | A railway spokesman , Gautam Banerjee , said the bomb went off when a police patrol stopped the man and wanted to search his bag . |
| 11 | The bomb went off and Joe Matos , a salesman , and Ayidan Zekai , a secretary , were thrown to the ground . |
| 12 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 13 | The safety catch was not applied , the pistol went off and James Martin was fatally wounded . |
| 14 | Multimedia is often associated with flexible software , sometimes called hypertext , which lets the user go off and browse in directions of his own choice in search of ill-defined information . |
| 15 | Goodman incorrectly thought he was the man to go off but Sunderland fans were soon relieved when he stayed on the pitch . |
| 16 | On reaching the city centre the generator goes off and the bus runs on in virtual silence . |
| 17 | Why ca n't this man go off and play with his money elsewhere on a Saturday afternoon ? |
| 18 | There 's this panda and he 's really bored with , I mean he 's , he 's getting no sex so he breaks out of erm London Zoo to go off and find a partner . |
| 19 | The show went off as well as these things do . |
| 20 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning we were trying to persuade poor old Eddy to go off and enjoy himself on a facilities trip to the Persian Gulf … |
| 21 | But the platform general alarm goes off and everybody goes to their master stations by the lifeboat . |
| 22 | Is that my alarm going off or yours ? |
| 23 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 24 | FISTS OF FIRE FRANK Bruno was yesterday promising a hot time for his next opponent Pierre Coetzer at a Press conference in London when a fire alarm went off and the building had to be evacuated . |
| 25 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 26 | An attempted break-in at King Hope accountants in Romanby Road , Northallerton , was thwarted when the alarm went off and the would-be thieves fled . |
| 27 | Fifteen minutes later , the breathing alarm went off and the staff nurse rushed into the room to find Allitt behaving in an ‘ extraordinary way ’ , said Mr Goldring . |
| 28 | The pair , both of Bridgeview Drive , Inverness , had fled in heavy snow after an alarm went off and police had followed their footprints . |
| 29 | Oh I woke up this morning when me alarm went off and looked at her fucking hell . |
| 30 | Vendors simply have n't had the time to go off and develop very proprietary offerings , yet . |