Example sentences of "have go off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His son has gone off to London , and he worries that he may lose touch with him .
2 Simply left a note to say she 'd gone off with Thomas .
3 Pity she 'd gone off to Meath .
4 It was a long , long time since he 'd gone off to America and now , at last , he was coming back on a month 's holiday .
5 The rest would have to go off as wage-labourers to the Lowlands .
6 But she was astonished , and deeply shocked , that they should have gone off with Guido 's speedboat .
7 And John Kelly , who had to go off with hamstring trouble , is also out of tonight 's match .
8 So to pay the rent he had to go off to Czechoslovakia and Australia to do films he knew were n't much good .
9 They 've gone off into Orpington and they , get this tennis racket and we have n't seen them since .
10 Emily 's visit to the dentist had gone off without trauma .
11 Her own uncles , more fools them , had gone off to France to fight and come back gassed .
12 Nina Rozanov , tired , had gone off to bed .
13 She had married an Englishman and the two of them had gone off to South Africa where , unhappily , they had engaged in political activities .
14 The next morning , after Master had gone off to school for the day , Sergeant decided to pay a visit to Riverbank to see his new friend Anabelle Hedgehog .
15 Perhaps she would learn a little more from them when Harry had gone off to sea again , an event she had learnt , over the years , to look forward to .
16 Three years after the death of little Henry Joseph , in January 1864 , William had been put apprentice to a gold-engraver in Clerkenwell , while Benjamin James , the academic star of the family , had gone off to Cheltenham two years later to train to be a teacher .
17 Often there would be some drama : Razia , the loudest and most ebullient of Chaman 's chelas would be wringing her hands and weeping because her new boyfriend had gone off to Ajmer or because Chaman had called her a tart or because her pet goat had gone missing ; she always suspected her neighbours were planning to slaughter it .
18 At the wedding a host of best wishes were received from the other side of the world where many relatives called Jones still remembered young Carol who had gone off to Australia as a child and was now all grown up and about to get wed .
19 Anyway his uncle had gone off for Christmas with his family , the house was empty .
20 But Steve had gone off with Maria Luisa for a few days and he was n't thinking about work , that was for sure , and she had n't her freedom anyway !
21 The woman detective had gone off with Roxie Farmer to give her a cup of tea and sit in her house keeping an eye on her .
22 Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach .
23 I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman .
24 By Thursday no Iraqi missile had fallen on Turkish soil , but the debris of a misfired Patriot anti-missile missile had , and air-raid sirens had gone off in Adana .
25 Several bombs have gone off in Latvia ; the locals think these were planted to give the army a possible excuse to move in .
26 the train 's gone past and it 's gone off to Clarkeston , which is five minutes up the road and then you 've got to wait until it comes back again .
27 I mean , that could be why he 's gone off to Scunthorpe , could n't it ?
28 And and er he 's gone off to Warwick University to do doing maths and stuff .
29 Then he 's gone off to Coventry , and then over to Manchester .
30 Her friend , next door , she 's gone off to Australia to see her daughter .
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