Example sentences of "go off for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 4 | When the baby cries a lot , and Lesley gets angry with her , I tell her to go off for an hour and I 'll look after her . |
| 5 | Mm , er what to think , oh I ca n't think of any words , oh we 're going to go off for an interview now anyway . |
| 6 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 7 | ‘ He 'll be delighted to have a break and go off for a pint . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 10 | ‘ Then , if we 're forward enough , Jinny and Oz can go off for the day with a couple of baskets . |
| 11 | Erm and er that it 's maybe very important at a time like this when children are potentially going and and knocking on stranger 's doors to be particularly careful so what we 've done is is is put together a simple guide for parents and carers erm which suggests that er they should n't just let their children go off for the evening . |
| 12 | ‘ I hate my fat knees , ’ she said , and went off for a ten-mile hike . |
| 13 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 14 | She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire . |
| 15 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
| 16 | They had n't said much to me apart from announcing themselves as Detective-Sergeant Hatchard and Detective Constable White , and even when they got back inside , Hatchard talked to the pathologist while White went off for a snoop around , as policemen do . |
| 17 | ‘ He stayed in his room when his wife went off for a jaunt round Oxford , remember ? |
| 18 | Corporal Ryan , the Irish Corporal , went off for a week 's leave in Marseilles and , for an unknown reason , killed himself with a hunting rifle in a hotel in the Old port . |
| 19 | Then they all went off for a visit to the zoo |