Example sentences of "go off [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A complaint goes off to the powers . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So these are now ready to go off to the specialists , okay . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 7 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 8 | In Mary Barton the working-class heroine and her husband go off to the colonies to start a new life . |
| 9 | Question mark , What that means is , four o'clock you go home , you pick the kids up from school , you take them all to MacDonalds , you all have Big Macs , yum , yum , then you go off to the pictures , and they all want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing somebody 's head off , and you want to watch Bambi or whatever it is . |
| 10 | Indeed late news stories can be added just moments before the final pages go off to the printers . |
| 11 | ‘ He seems to have gone off into the wilds of Turkey on some dig or other , and got so interested that he forgot to come back . |
| 12 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 13 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 14 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 15 | They 're looking for the womankind who have all gone off with the Romans . |
| 16 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
| 17 | Mind you , I suppose you 'll go off with the Italians . |
| 18 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
| 19 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 20 | He would go off into the mountains for days on end . |
| 21 | ‘ Why did you go off into the woods ? |
| 22 | I would die first — leaving him to die on stage while I went off into the wings . ’ |
| 23 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 24 | ‘ Took the car into the garage and the silly cow went off with the keys . |
| 25 | proposed erm and that point the Liberal Democrats went off with the Tories . |
| 26 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 27 | I went off to the doctors , she said I had and I was upset |
| 28 | By Sunday morning , though , they had both their parents ' blessing , and Sebastian went off to the Greens ' house to get more details of the flat from Rosemary . |
| 29 | Taking a hint from the fame and antiquity of Egyptian flax working , Roberts went off to the banks of the Nile to study the Temple of Karnak , and came back to build Mr Marshall a factory in like fashion , which soon became known , naturally enough , as the Temple Mill . |
| 30 | The workhouse master reported that Connolly then put his boots on and went off to the police station to make a complaint of assault . |