Example sentences of "went off [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Tom went off on paternity leave and his secretary organised a whip-round to send a card and a gift . |
2 | Back in Frenchay , Caroline , who has never got things out of perspective , changed out of her special Palace outfit and went off to choir practice as if nothing had happened . |
3 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
4 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
5 | Then went off from stud groom , from there I went to be head lad with Sammy . |