Example sentences of "went off [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 2 | A female friend who was visiting suggested that Amy might have more fun being the Prime Minister than a lowly maid and so Amy went off to dress as the PM . |
| 3 | After a cursory check , Myeloski went off to talk to the guard at the gate and find a torch . |
| 4 | On the day of his first marriage , his wife went off to perform in a matinée and Burton listened to the International match . |
| 5 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |
| 6 | Indeed , many of those children whose fathers went off to fight in the war experienced that same sense of inner rejection , even though as they grew older they were able to understand the truth of the matter . |
| 7 | It may well have been used to make bows for local archers who went off to fight in the battle of Agincourt . |
| 8 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |