Example sentences of "[adv] go [to-vb] off " in BNC.

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1 I mean I 've just come through there and I had a car today and a girl was telling me her father erm opened his door last week er cataract and the , the wife , the granny blind too and there , the man from the water board was just going to switch off your water , just okay if I check your taps , three hundred pounds out the house
2 There seemed no way he was ever going to get off this subject .
3 BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect .
4 DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News .
5 To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy .
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