Example sentences of "go off with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it , a small child roams the streets , talking to strangers , until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram . |
| 2 | Oh I like everything that goes off with a bang , Jane ! |
| 3 | And a foul by Whitlow on Rozario and pain written all over Robert Rozario 's face and we saw that the last time we had a Nottingham Forest live game when he collided with a post up at Bolton Wanderers and had to go off with a rib and facial injuries . |
| 4 | He threw in a good job with an insurance company to go off with a woman and ended up , broke and heartbroke , in a cheap caravan site outside Fort Worth , where he decided to put an end to himself . |
| 5 | She left to go off with a fellow , you remember ? |
| 6 | After Peter Russell had slotted over a neat dropped goal on the Dungannon 22 , McGarry , before going off with a nose injury swung the game again in Dungannon 's favour with his final penalty of the match . |
| 7 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's what I said , missis , gone off with a bloke . |
| 9 | We 're hoping against hope that she 's gone off with a friend or a boyfriend and will get in touch with her parents . |
| 10 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
| 11 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 12 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 13 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
| 14 | Seven of our Section were detached for a fortnight to make our creche , so each day after parade they would go off with a Corporal to hump sand , fill wheelbarrows with moss and look for things to add to the project . |
| 15 | Hankin will be heartened by the news that young defender Sean Gregan , who went off with a rib injury in Saturday 's home defeat by Preston , has recovered quickly . |
| 16 | Histon keeper David Norman went off with a back injury but Newmarket did not give his replacement , ex-Newmarket defender Dick Hall , too many problems after the break . |
| 17 | " Stephen went off with a carrier-bag , dear . " |
| 18 | The plastic went off with a smack of solid air that stabbed pain into his ears and moved the container next to him . |
| 19 | Ricky has left , she went off with a bloke ten years younger than her |
| 20 | Sarah neither confirmed nor denied it , but went off with a smile . |
| 21 | She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’ |
| 22 | He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday . |
| 23 | A close friend who was gay — we were never quite lovers but we were inseparable for a while — went off with a woman and I was incredibly devastated by this . |
| 24 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 25 | Rob Andrew went off with a bang on the nose which needed an X-ray , although it was later revealed that there was no fracture , while his replacement Stuart Barnes had 12 stitches in a head wound caused by a stray boot . |
| 26 | ‘ He went off with a lexicographer with cross-eyes and knock-knees and webbed feet — a duck . ’ |
| 27 | He went off with a list of ideas , and was later observed totally engrossed , having covered two sides of A4 . |