Example sentences of "and [pers pn] went off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
| 2 | She took them in during the day and I went off to Bartle 's — that 's the engineering factory in Brick Lane . |
| 3 | Davey and I went off to our rooms . |
| 4 | It got my interest going and I went off to Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Mid-Wales and even down to Bristol . |
| 5 | Well look , I 've got it all in my sort of purse ready you see , and I went off to town today and you know what I bought ? |
| 6 | I pushed hard and I picked up some places , but then in the bad conditions Lehto caught me and I went off into the wet and that was it . ’ |
| 7 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 8 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 9 | no your sit and smooth Elsa and I went off in heed , I am Tommy |
| 10 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , that 's all that matters , then , kid , ’ I said , and we went off to Fortnum and Mason for a Peach Melba . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He got off and they went off with it ! |
| 14 | She enjoyed the Sundays when Grant came home and they went off on outings ‘ as if we were a perfectly ordinary family ’ . |
| 15 | When Frankie arrived on Tuesday afternoon with his printing order , he got hold of Mark and they went off on their own . |
| 16 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
| 17 | Adam paid the man and he went off on a bicycle , still wearing the knotted handkerchief on his head . |
| 18 | We do not know how much this was due to poor manufacturing standards or poor pilots , but in any event the authorities dispensed with Tank 's services and he went off to Egypt and then India , where he designed the Hal-Marut , a plane suitable for twice the speed of sound but with engines capable only of less than half that speed . |
| 19 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 20 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 21 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 22 | ‘ We put Zebedee back in the horse box and he went off in disgrace back to a local farm . ’ |
| 23 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |