Example sentences of "go off [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I mean I do n't want it to be a party where everybody goes off into different rooms , you know ? |
| 2 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 3 | He also claimed that there was " no independent constitutional authority for Congress to go off on investigatory frolics of its own " . |
| 4 | Lock your door , set whatever device will rouse you at a definite time ( cooking-timer , flashing alarm clock , vibrator ) — set it to go off in eight minutes . |
| 5 | They tended , however , to go off in different directions . |
| 6 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 7 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 8 | ‘ What do you think Father and Mother would say if they knew you were even thinking of going off with those kids — and at this time of night ! |
| 9 | Well it 's , I mean it 's letting them know what 's going off at other prisons . |
| 10 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 11 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 12 | ‘ We want a plan formulated jointly by government , industry , research establishments and the academic community , which will prevent us all going off in different directions ’ , says , professor of aeronautics at the Cranfield Institute of Technology and chairman of the committee . |
| 13 | If astronauts go off on long journeys , in any direction in three-dimensional space , they 'll get to the boundary of our universe . |
| 14 | Now , note taking is a skill in the sense that y'know the final years you would n't , final year lecturers I mean are so waffly and ah go off in all directions because of different people . |
| 15 | They watched the three girls pair off with their brothers and go off in different directions . |
| 16 | And if he 's simply got tired of the pressure and gone off for six months to play golf and be with his family , they usually say he 's short of bottle . |
| 17 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |
| 18 | Now they 've gone off to other groups handing out food , like Food for Work and the Mothers ' Clubs where they do weaving and knitting and things like that . ’ |
| 19 | Our first evening out in France had gone off with several bangs and broken glass . |
| 20 | You do n't usually go off with strange women like that . ’ |
| 21 | After morning parade , those not required for any tests or interviews would go off on working parties around the camp . |
| 22 | They will go off to other projects , he fears , and the Ethiopians , in common with the rest of us who want to understand our origins , will be the losers . |
| 23 | They will go off to other projects , he fears , and the Ethiopians , in common with the rest of us who want to understand our origins , will be the losers . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's like a time bomb you carry round with you , ’ Arty said , ‘ and the alarm might n't go off for twenty-five years . ’ |
| 25 | A warning phonecall said the bomb would go off in 15 minutes , but the device exploded just 90 seconds later in the stairwell of the Catholic-owned office complex . |
| 26 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 27 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 28 | The attack began when incendiary bombs went off on two floors of a museum in Shrewsbury Castle , Shropshire — causing £250,000 damage and destroying many irreplaceable relics of three famous regiments . |
| 29 | Bombs went off on six beaches at once . |
| 30 | While transit passengers went off on local tours , Ellerman & Bucknall were busy co-ordinating the delivery of 80 tons of supplies and 2,500 tons of fuel to be taken on board . |