Example sentences of "go off to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A complaint goes off to the powers .
3 Dad goes off to the gin shop , gallant daughter stays up to put the old soak to bed . ’
4 The material for printing usually goes off to the printer on the Tuesday , when the noticeboards are changed .
5 We start each day as the farmer goes off to the milking , between 5 and 6 a.m .
6 She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back .
7 Two miles into the hills , the track to Shenavall bothy goes off to the right .
8 The community is signposted " Durrenroth " at a side road that goes off to the right ( and later rejoins the main road further on ) .
9 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 .
10 Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 And as a business , politician and freemason , it was only natural to go off to the golf course on a Sunday .
15 So these are now ready to go off to the specialists , okay .
16 I would have to go off to the lavatory , come back and start the same scene with a variation .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 He shuddered and looked away , his eyes going off to the horizon .
20 I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front .
21 " Everybody seems to be going off to the wedding-breakfast .
22 We 'd camp next to the meeting and go off to the pub on the Saturday night , halfway through the decathlon .
23 And then o over to the bungalow , now she 'll either do that she 'll do the shopping before we go off to the bungalow , maybe we 'll pop down to Asda and
24 Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend .
25 And I can see this er this woman with her three children go off to the workhouse and er they was crying but they were waving and then all the neighbours was out waving to them .
26 In Mary Barton the working-class heroine and her husband go off to the colonies to start a new life .
27 Once I get them up from their rest , we go off to the lake and feed the ducks or we go to friends .
28 The words just wo n't come any more , so I 'm going to put my biro down and go off to the post .
29 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 .
30 Indeed late news stories can be added just moments before the final pages go off to the printers .
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