Example sentences of "go off at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 3 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 4 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 5 | If the spacing between the strands is uneven , or if they curve or go off at an angle , the knotting is irregular , and denotes a poor quality rug . |
| 6 | On the corner of the cul-de-sac they go off at an angle do n't they . |
| 7 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 8 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 9 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 10 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 13 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 14 | defendant with handicap of 24 hit ball with toe of his golf club , so that it went off at an angle of 30 degrees . |