Example sentences of "go off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a guest checks in the receptionist allocates a room showing a green light ; he or she presses a switch and the green light goes off on the board as well as on the cashier 's and housekeeper 's boards . |
| 2 | As Colin ( looking wasted as in exhausted ) goes off to the tour bus to sleep and Jhelisa disappears with a relative , he hangs out with various fans . |
| 3 | A complaint goes off to the powers . |
| 4 | Dad goes off to the gin shop , gallant daughter stays up to put the old soak to bed . ’ |
| 5 | The material for printing usually goes off to the printer on the Tuesday , when the noticeboards are changed . |
| 6 | We start each day as the farmer goes off to the milking , between 5 and 6 a.m . |
| 7 | She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back . |
| 8 | Two miles into the hills , the track to Shenavall bothy goes off to the right . |
| 9 | The community is signposted " Durrenroth " at a side road that goes off to the right ( and later rejoins the main road further on ) . |
| 10 | Shortly beyond Huswil , at Gettnau ( 10km , 6 miles from Huttwil ) road 23 continues straight ahead east to Sursee ( on the Sempacher Lake ) , but take instead a branch that goes off to the right for Willisau , a thirteenth-century foundation . |
| 11 | Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left . |
| 12 | and all that , then he took no notice of that , now do n't tip them silly , what the bloody hell you doing that for ? , do n't be so daft , so any way , then Stuart goes off into the showers and turns the showers on |
| 13 | Jesus , filled with the Spirit , goes off into the wilderness , the place where Israel had been tested for forty . |
| 14 | The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap . |
| 15 | I mean , what we know about what goes off in the courts , i is is entirely dependent on which particular reporter happens to be reporting . |
| 16 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 17 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 18 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 19 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 20 | Charity exchanged a few pleasantries , then , at a look from her mother , excused herself to go off to the kitchen , leaving Leonora alone with Mrs Vaughan . |
| 21 | And as a business , politician and freemason , it was only natural to go off to the golf course on a Sunday . |
| 22 | So these are now ready to go off to the specialists , okay . |
| 23 | I would have to go off to the lavatory , come back and start the same scene with a variation . |
| 24 | In the 1920s , Dundas Hamilton 's father , Arthur Hamilton , used to go off to the Stock Exchange each day with a bag containing socks and shoes . |
| 25 | He had screeched to a halt in the residents ' parking bay in an unimpressed Hereford Road , let himself in , banged on his own door and , keeping his distance , ordered Jacqui to go off to the pictures for the afternoon . |
| 26 | Rockets continued to go off outside the building . |
| 27 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 28 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 29 | Mr Kettering going off without the dog and his wife bringing it round to you — it all seems a bit odd if it 's so devoted to him . ’ |
| 30 | How will we keep food from going off without the use of refrigerators ? |