Example sentences of "[conj] went off [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Thank you , ’ said Lucy softly , hugged her again and went off into the night . |
2 | He squeezed them and kissed them and went off into the house . |
3 | Isabel nodded and went off into the garden . |
4 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
5 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
6 | He bowed and went off up the stairs . |
7 | Phil 's 4th break in showbiz came when Pete Gabriel left the band and went off to the rainforest disguised as a flower . |
8 | The workhouse master reported that Connolly then put his boots on and went off to the police station to make a complaint of assault . |
9 | " Thanks , " she said , and went off to the gate , where she and her companion resumed their sharp-eyed stroll around the guilty streets . |
10 | Then she methodically collected her bag , and went off to the Underground , walked up the streets to her mother 's house , and stood outside it looking at the " For Sale " sign . |
11 | ‘ I was upset at being kept awake by people snoring , ’ said Fintan , but after a moment he got up and went off to the buttery himself , ‘ because we need to know if the parsley butter is ready , ’ he said rather defiantly . |
12 | Downstairs Mrs Diggory , holding fast to the protesting Hector 's collar , smiled to herself with grim satisfaction , and went off to the kitchen . |
13 | Eventually a few candles were lit , the band started playing , the couples uncoupled and went off to the back room , and the party went on . |
14 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
15 | And nodding his head in agreement with that , Mr Wolski took his broom and went off down the path away from the Cages , for it saddened him more and more to see the eagles there . |
16 | Angrily , Bernice picked herself up and went off down the winding path . |
17 | Pulling her cloak around her and laying her fork carefully along the wooden pegs on the side of the wain , Alexandra climbed the iron railings , already cold and slippery with new snow , and went off in the direction of the kitchen . |