Example sentences of "go off [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it , a small child roams the streets , talking to strangers , until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram . |
| 2 | Oh I like everything that goes off with a bang , Jane ! |
| 3 | The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools . |
| 4 | Nosey parkering round the piles of recently acquired books while her hostess goes off for a pee , she announces on Rainbow 's return — ‘ I was right . |
| 5 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 6 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 7 | NYUP ! goes off in a couple of hundred limey brains — and are ignored . |
| 8 | With soloist , conductor and orchestra on this kind of form , it is no surprise that the Finale goes off like a rocket . |
| 9 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
| 10 | Now you 'll see him in a moment , he this guy driving he wants to go off on a slip road . |
| 11 | And a foul by Whitlow on Rozario and pain written all over Robert Rozario 's face and we saw that the last time we had a Nottingham Forest live game when he collided with a post up at Bolton Wanderers and had to go off with a rib and facial injuries . |
| 12 | He threw in a good job with an insurance company to go off with a woman and ended up , broke and heartbroke , in a cheap caravan site outside Fort Worth , where he decided to put an end to himself . |
| 13 | She left to go off with a fellow , you remember ? |
| 14 | The Tema Russo Finale can hardly be said to go off like a rocket either . |
| 15 | After Peter Russell had slotted over a neat dropped goal on the Dungannon 22 , McGarry , before going off with a nose injury swung the game again in Dungannon 's favour with his final penalty of the match . |
| 16 | Then he 's going off to a party . |
| 17 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 18 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 19 | I 'm always going off into a trance . |
| 20 | There was no point in going off like a stone from a catapult . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'll be delighted to have a break and go off for a pint . |
| 22 | Because usually you go off to a restaurant and if there 's twenty of you you ca n't sit together can you ? |
| 23 | " I ca n't just drop everything and go off on a picnic . " |
| 24 | You do n't have to remember any words or facts or anything difficult like that — you just go off in a sort of coma and think how wonderful you are . |
| 25 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 26 | I was only able to come because all the men have gone off to a meeting with Romanies from other camps . |
| 27 | Yes , her mum and dad just gone off on a cruise for er , I do n't know |
| 28 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's what I said , missis , gone off with a bloke . |
| 30 | We 're hoping against hope that she 's gone off with a friend or a boyfriend and will get in touch with her parents . |