Example sentences of "go off in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Fireworks were going off in the city , in advance of Halloween . |
| 6 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |
| 7 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 8 | It does have the advantage of the computer not going off in the heat of the moment and hurting some innocent bank clerk , though . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When the alarms go off in the house , they 'll go on in Central Station . |
| 10 | Is not that comment on security even more staggering than the bombs that go off in the city , although all such bombings are to be condemned and deplored ? |
| 11 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 12 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |
| 13 | Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market . |
| 14 | And she sang a few bars into the mouthpiece , swaying a little , watching the lights go off in the theatre . |
| 15 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 16 | ‘ Fernand went off in the tractor soon after lunch , ’ said Sue . |
| 17 | About forty-five minutes later three huge explosions went off in the Wilkerson house , the force of which blew Dustin 's $700 desk through a hole in the wall . |
| 18 | Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium . |
| 19 | The anniversary of that incident was ‘ celebrated ’ on May 9 last month when firebombs went off in the shopping mall of The Galleries shopping centre at Bristol , at the opposite end of the country . |
| 20 | At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks . |
| 21 | It went off in the gents ' toilet on the ground floor . |
| 22 | A firebomb also went off in the Plaza shopping centre in Oxford Street , London , on Wednesday morning . |
| 23 | He went off in the direction of some green doors that bore the legend ‘ Narcissus Clothing ’ , muttering , ‘ That 'll do , that 'll do . ’ |
| 24 | He went off in the direction of the river and the dark bulk of the flatboat . |
| 25 | Pulling her cloak around her and laying her fork carefully along the wooden pegs on the side of the wain , Alexandra climbed the iron railings , already cold and slippery with new snow , and went off in the direction of the kitchen . |
| 26 | ‘ Tuesday was the day he went off in the van and came back with a bruised face ; presumably you 've got a record of the people he called on that day ? |
| 27 | We had hundreds of er identity cards and ration books , all of which are on display in the library , coupled with some extraordinary things ; er a wedding dress made out of a parachute , and an empty incendiary bomb — I stress empty , I 'd hate to think it went off in the library . |
| 28 | Only when Juha went off in the morning could we have a bit of a rest . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay . |
| 30 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , Belfast , was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |