Example sentences of "[noun pl] go off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm You know the ring er the r er roundabout as you go down Monkgate , er one one of the l the roads goes off to Huntington Road and the other one is is Heworth Green and then the other road goes off now to Sainsburys . |
| 2 | She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks , with terrific speed . |
| 3 | They would like all the refugees to go off to Newham and similar boroughs , and for the Home Office to hear no more about the matter . |
| 4 | ‘ If he signs it will be like all the fireworks going off on Bonfire Night . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't know if there was lanes going off into town , whe or oh I do n't know . |
| 6 | Hunting is the favourite pastime ; at the start of the season , high schools close as whole families go off in pursuit of everything from squirrels to wild boar . |
| 7 | The bus reversed its direction and the would-be rioters went off with laughter and cheers , no bad blood on either side . |
| 8 | Most pronunciamientos went off at half-cock . |
| 9 | The bombs went off at lunch-time near a busy Boots chemist and a McDonalds hamburger restaurant packed with children and teenagers . |
| 10 | She went to catch a bus on Bloody Friday when 13 bombs went off in Belfast city centre . |
| 11 | Wednesday , December 16 — Two bombs go off in London 's West End . |
| 12 | Houston Texas so you 've got the rockets going off in Florida being controlled by people in Texas , why ? |
| 13 | After a long day filming , our three Busmen went off with notes on everything from the capital of Grand Cayman to the flag of Ougodogoland . |
| 14 | The particles go off into baby universes that branch off from our universe . |
| 15 | It 's affecting fox cubs and hedgehogs , the mothers go off for water and leave orphans . |
| 16 | The devices went off at Madame Tussauds , the London Planetarium , and the Imperial War Museum at Kennington . |
| 17 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 18 | When the others went off to Blackpool I stayed behind to attend to Foreign Office business , as my speech to the Conference was not to be until later in the week . |
| 19 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |