Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] go off [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Then it transpired the guitar I wanted to try did n't have a tremolo bar so he went off to find one . |
| 4 | But they should put in little sort of qualifications like er er they gave people land and if they went off to fight then it would be guaranteed that the land would be tilled . |
| 5 | Tom Tremayne had seen to that and Liza , irresponsible and hedonistic as she was , could not quite see herself leaving Harriet holding the baby while she went off to undertake some kind of training . |
| 6 | This was Elisabeth Lee ; she invited us down to look round while she went off to collect her child . |
| 7 | While they went off to save our lands |
| 8 | Fortunately a lorry driver was washing in the basin , so while he went off to have a shit in one of the cabinets , I rifled his spongebag and pinched a disposable razor . |
| 9 | We sang marching across the muddy fields in front of the farmhouse , we sang in the cookhouse tent before we were allowed to eat , we sang at parade before we went off to exercise , and at any point that the staff thought we had nothing to do , it was out with the songbooks . |
| 10 | ‘ When I go off to work each day , ’ he said slowly , ‘ Dorothy comes out to the car with me to say goodbye . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Maybe it had some bearing on Uncle Fred 's last words to me as I went off to do my National Service in the army . |
| 13 | I never complained as I went off to watch West Ham that afternoon , having scoffed his portion of chips . |
| 14 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ What sort of accommodation have you got in Harwich ? ’ she asked , as we went off to sit down in the lounge . |
| 17 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 18 | ‘ Certainly , sir , ’ Theda replied , and turned as he went off to find in Mrs Alderley 's face a look of blank astonishment . |