Example sentences of "went off to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father went off to the park . |
| 2 | When Dad went off to the pub with the bottles the following day I followed him . |
| 3 | " Thanks , " she said , and went off to the gate , where she and her companion resumed their sharp-eyed stroll around the guilty streets . |
| 4 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
| 5 | But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But she maintained that he went off to the Supersight factory with Brian Harley for several days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery . |
| 10 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Downstairs Mrs Diggory , holding fast to the protesting Hector 's collar , smiled to herself with grim satisfaction , and went off to the kitchen . |
| 15 | He went off to the kitchen , leaving Leonora apprehensive about the rest of the evening . |
| 16 | He went off to the kitchen and returned with a carrier-bag . |
| 17 | Phil 's 4th break in showbiz came when Pete Gabriel left the band and went off to the rainforest disguised as a flower . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And with that she went off to the shop to collect the miserable amount of provisions that were due . |
| 20 | My application form went off to the town hall first class , posted in Darlington on the morning of Friday March 20 . |
| 21 | When Gloria went off to the Essoldo , Dot could n't go with her . |
| 22 | The highway bent to the left , while a smaller track went off to the right . |
| 23 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
| 24 | Sean and Mark , which was what the boy was called , went off to the hostel . |
| 25 | Dudley , after years of trying to get redress by law , went off to the Continent in a huff ( and a fancy woman ) where the Emperor created him a duke and overlooked the fancy woman . |
| 26 | Peony went off to the power house and got the machine turning again . |
| 27 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |
| 28 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 29 | We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning . |
| 30 | ‘ I was upset at being kept awake by people snoring , ’ said Fintan , but after a moment he got up and went off to the buttery himself , ‘ because we need to know if the parsley butter is ready , ’ he said rather defiantly . |