Example sentences of "went off to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The better pupils then went off to a boarding school . |
| 3 | He went off to a shoot . |
| 4 | The pair tied the knot in July , and the last-minute wedding went off to a tee … |
| 5 | We were joined there by George and Marion and we all went off to a skiing resort called Gargellen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | This went off to the Edinburgh dailies and weeklies , and the local ( suburban ) monthly News . |
| 9 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 10 | My father went off to the park . |
| 11 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 12 | I went off to the doctors , she said I had and I was upset |
| 13 | When Dad went off to the pub with the bottles the following day I followed him . |
| 14 | " Thanks , " she said , and went off to the gate , where she and her companion resumed their sharp-eyed stroll around the guilty streets . |
| 15 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
| 16 | But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses . |
| 17 | I was about five when Dad started taking me with him when he went off to the allotment and I remember how , on a Wednesday evening , we went to Johnny Lampard 's yard in Exeter Street . |
| 18 | But she maintained that he went off to the Supersight factory with Brian Harley for several days . |
| 19 | He then went off to the desert to see Montgomery , accompanied by Shan Hackett , to ask permission to hand-pick volunteers from the various regiments in the Eighth Army . |
| 20 | But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery . |
| 21 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 22 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
| 23 | Flora sat in the kitchen , laboriously practising chain stitch on a rag torn from an old shirt of Peter 's , and Anna , who was in charge of the cleaning-rota , went off to the church to see if it actually had been cleaned . |
| 24 | Frances and Miles went off to the kitchen to do the washing-up ( and , no doubt , to talk annuities ) , leaving Charles to entertain the children . |
| 25 | Downstairs Mrs Diggory , holding fast to the protesting Hector 's collar , smiled to herself with grim satisfaction , and went off to the kitchen . |
| 26 | He went off to the kitchen , leaving Leonora apprehensive about the rest of the evening . |
| 27 | He went off to the kitchen and returned with a carrier-bag . |
| 28 | By Sunday morning , though , they had both their parents ' blessing , and Sebastian went off to the Greens ' house to get more details of the flat from Rosemary . |
| 29 | Phil 's 4th break in showbiz came when Pete Gabriel left the band and went off to the rainforest disguised as a flower . |
| 30 | Then she methodically collected her bag , and went off to the Underground , walked up the streets to her mother 's house , and stood outside it looking at the " For Sale " sign . |