Example sentences of "go off on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 2 | Now you 'll see him in a moment , he this guy driving he wants to go off on a slip road . |
| 3 | " I ca n't just drop everything and go off on a picnic . " |
| 4 | Yes , her mum and dad just gone off on a cruise for er , I do n't know |
| 5 | I know she became somewhat lonely because her husband , although he was a very hard worker , would go off on a spree for some days at a time . |
| 6 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 7 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 8 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 9 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 10 | Adam paid the man and he went off on a bicycle , still wearing the knotted handkerchief on his head . |
| 11 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 12 | Georgiades , vexed , went off on a search of his own . |
| 13 | When he went off on a week 's holiday , I was asked to stand in experimentally for him . |
| 14 | While this was being done , Byrne and Phillips went off on a recce down to the road . |