Example sentences of "[pron] go off [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It may well have been used to make bows for local archers who went off to fight in the battle of Agincourt . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She went off to attend to her cultures , and Reynolds handed in the form and the catalogue to the copy clerk . |
| 6 | Unfortunately for him , his feelings were not reciprocated and she went off to work in America . |
| 7 | And she went off to look for Moominpappa to ask him to put up two more beds — very , very small ones . |
| 8 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |
| 9 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 10 | He goes off to report to the sergeant . |
| 11 | Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . |
| 12 | Has it gone off to look for Buck ? ’ |
| 13 | He went off to live with her . |
| 14 | He was a dragon , but he went off to fight in Russia , poor boy . |
| 15 | ‘ Certainly , sir , ’ Theda replied , and turned as he went off to find in Mrs Alderley 's face a look of blank astonishment . |
| 16 | ‘ When he came out they said he 'd lost his mind so he went off to look for it and has n't been seen since . ’ |
| 17 | He went off to look for coffee . |
| 18 | Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ? |