Example sentences of "went off in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fernand went off in the tractor soon after lunch , ’ said Sue . |
| 2 | About forty-five minutes later three huge explosions went off in the Wilkerson house , the force of which blew Dustin 's $700 desk through a hole in the wall . |
| 3 | Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium . |
| 4 | The anniversary of that incident was ‘ celebrated ’ on May 9 last month when firebombs went off in the shopping mall of The Galleries shopping centre at Bristol , at the opposite end of the country . |
| 5 | At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks . |
| 6 | It went off in the gents ' toilet on the ground floor . |
| 7 | A firebomb also went off in the Plaza shopping centre in Oxford Street , London , on Wednesday morning . |
| 8 | He went off in the direction of some green doors that bore the legend ‘ Narcissus Clothing ’ , muttering , ‘ That 'll do , that 'll do . ’ |
| 9 | He went off in the direction of the river and the dark bulk of the flatboat . |
| 10 | Pulling her cloak around her and laying her fork carefully along the wooden pegs on the side of the wain , Alexandra climbed the iron railings , already cold and slippery with new snow , and went off in the direction of the kitchen . |
| 11 | ‘ Tuesday was the day he went off in the van and came back with a bruised face ; presumably you 've got a record of the people he called on that day ? |
| 12 | We had hundreds of er identity cards and ration books , all of which are on display in the library , coupled with some extraordinary things ; er a wedding dress made out of a parachute , and an empty incendiary bomb — I stress empty , I 'd hate to think it went off in the library . |
| 13 | Only when Juha went off in the morning could we have a bit of a rest . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay . |
| 15 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , Belfast , was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 16 | The building was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 17 | No I went off in the car with They climbed over the fence . |