Example sentences of "went off [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went off into a reverie , dreaming of proleptic man . |
| 2 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Adam paid the man and he went off on a bicycle , still wearing the knotted handkerchief on his head . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Georgiades , vexed , went off on a search of his own . |
| 9 | When he went off on a week 's holiday , I was asked to stand in experimentally for him . |
| 10 | While this was being done , Byrne and Phillips went off on a recce down to the road . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " Stephen went off with a carrier-bag , dear . " |
| 14 | The plastic went off with a smack of solid air that stabbed pain into his ears and moved the container next to him . |
| 15 | Ricky has left , she went off with a bloke ten years younger than her |
| 16 | Sarah neither confirmed nor denied it , but went off with a smile . |
| 17 | She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ He went off with a lexicographer with cross-eyes and knock-knees and webbed feet — a duck . ’ |
| 23 | He went off with a list of ideas , and was later observed totally engrossed , having covered two sides of A4 . |
| 24 | He went off to a pub , spent half an hour with his mates , and then reported to the casualty department and was dead within a quarter of an hour . |
| 25 | The better pupils then went off to a boarding school . |
| 26 | He went off to a shoot . |
| 27 | The pair tied the knot in July , and the last-minute wedding went off to a tee … |
| 28 | We were joined there by George and Marion and we all went off to a skiing resort called Gargellen . |
| 29 | He went off to a club where they wanted him to prove his age at the door ; it never crossed his mind that anyone else was under age . |
| 30 | In fact , she went off to a jazz club with other musician friends that very evening , to drown her sorrows , and met your father , who was playing in the band . ’ |