Example sentences of "had gone off [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detonator had worked , his ‘ conversion ’ had gone off bang , and all the king 's horses and all the king 's men could never put the old Mark Underwood together again . |
| 2 | The staff who had been in the kitchen when Zambia had landed in the packing cases had gone off duty soon afterwards . |
| 3 | It was late afternoon and the nurse had gone off duty . |
| 4 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 5 | The Superintendent had gone off duty , but Sergeant Burgess was there , and an Inspector who 'd just come in from a river patrol . |
| 6 | The woman who answered said she thought Sally had gone off duty but would put me through to the staff quarters . |
| 7 | During a slow lap on Friday , the first day of practice , Mansell had gone off line slightly and it was enough to have the Williams slide into a tyre barrier and snap off the right-hand suspension . |