Example sentences of "went off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went off into a reverie , dreaming of proleptic man . |
| 2 | I would die first — leaving him to die on stage while I went off into the wings . ’ |
| 3 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you , ’ said Lucy softly , hugged her again and went off into the night . |
| 5 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 6 | The trio of actors became close off set , though with Fonda a committed monogamist , Hopper and Nicholson often went off into the night ; on one occasion they shared a memorable experience with LSD , so memorable , in fact , that both men have chosen , separately , to recall it in detail , as best they could . |
| 7 | She went off into the kitchen . |
| 8 | He went off into the kitchen and came back with an apple pie . |
| 9 | He went off into the kitchen . |
| 10 | Ashley nodded , and , as she went off into the kitchen , Vitor took the little boy to collect his present . |
| 11 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 12 | Fortunately other workers were near enough to restrain Uncle Fred before he had time to carry out his threat , with the result that a badly shaken farmer went off into the farmhouse , saying that he would fetch the police in the morning — no telephones in those days . |
| 13 | Isabel nodded and went off into the garden . |
| 14 | He squeezed them and kissed them and went off into the house . |
| 15 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 16 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 17 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 18 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 19 | defendant with handicap of 24 hit ball with toe of his golf club , so that it went off at an angle of 30 degrees . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Adam paid the man and he went off on a bicycle , still wearing the knotted handkerchief on his head . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Georgiades , vexed , went off on a search of his own . |
| 26 | When he went off on a week 's holiday , I was asked to stand in experimentally for him . |
| 27 | While this was being done , Byrne and Phillips went off on a recce down to the road . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | " Stephen went off with a carrier-bag , dear . " |