Example sentences of "go off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stage direction suggests devils appear and Faustus goes off with Mephostophilis . |
| 2 | British audiences may derive enjoyment from laughing at the psychobabble , wincing at the plot contrivances and gaping at the crashingly obvious phallic symbolism , but the movie as a whole goes off at half-Hitchcock . |
| 3 | The voices of , among others , Joss Ackland , Claire Bloom , Roy Kinnear and Rik Mayall give us a tale of pretty Princess Irene whose father the King goes off on business . |
| 4 | Lizzie is married with four children and a small business ; Frances , her twin sister , is an independent spirit who , one Christmas , goes off to Spain and falls in love with a married Spanish man . |
| 5 | all they do is diddle some keys and it goes off to T S B and then it goes into your account , that 's the way it 's supposed to work |
| 6 | Next October , armed with two As and a B ( he original mark in English ) , he goes off to Manchester University to read French . |
| 7 | And he goes off to school , and he tells all his mates . |
| 8 | When the child goes off to university or leaves home |
| 9 | I do n't really want to be cope with Deborah and Catherine the day Clare goes off to Isle of Wight do we ? |
| 10 | At times one does not know what to think : Balin goes off to Moria and disaster after ‘ a shadow of disquiet ’ fell upon the dwarves , and when Glóin says this it appears only a metaphor for mundane discontent . |
| 11 | More seriously sacrilegious is surely Saint Pierre et le jongleur , " Saint Peter and the jongleur " , in which a jongleur 's soul goes off to Hell with a number of other satirically identified characters — jousting men , usurers , thieves , bishops , priests , monks , abbots , knights — but presents itself , incongruously , as that of a relatively good character , anxious , for instance , to please its new infernal master ( in a witty parody of the Orpheus story ) by singing . |
| 12 | So you too would assume quoick transformation we 've got a geometric progression in here that goes off to infinity alright which is equivalent to that , that little thing alright , we 've got three parameters here this one , that one and that one , alright , so we converted what is an infinite stream into a finite stream using this er , quoick transformation . |
| 13 | Erm You know the ring er the r er roundabout as you go down Monkgate , er one one of the l the roads goes off to Huntington Road and the other one is is Heworth Green and then the other road goes off now to Sainsburys . |
| 14 | Like y'know we we 've mentioned organisational structure I think in the very first lecture er that idea , the idea that you 've got a kind of box at the top labelled president and you 've got two boxes underneath labelled vice president and you 've got y'know one box goes off to sales manager y'know the sort of thing I mean , okay ? |
| 15 | Saturday , February 27 — Device goes off in Camden High Street , north London . |
| 16 | Laura Mancinelli 's Mozart 's Ghost ( 1986 ) combines two rather donnish mysteries : the protagonist is pursued by ‘ anonymous ’ telephone calls which consist of nothing but music by Mozart ; when she is spared further harassment by the entire Turin telephone system seizing up , she goes off in pursuit of the concealed manuscript of Plato 's last dialogue . |
| 17 | Nathan gets and goes off in search of somewhere quiet , clutching a toilet roll and anxious anticipations . |
| 18 | This is paid back gradually in rent from the co-operative 's members and the council 's cash goes off in search of new schemes to finance . |
| 19 | Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ? |
| 20 | The rest would have to go off as wage-labourers to the Lowlands . |
| 21 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 22 | At the time of rehearsals for Freddie Mercury 's tribute concert at Wembley , former Queen bass player John Deacon strangely opted to go off on holiday , leaving Neil to dep with the band . |
| 23 | And then , out of the blue , as she was getting ready for bed on the evening before Kirsty was due to go off on holiday , Mrs Aitken tapped on Shiona 's bedroom door . |
| 24 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 25 | It was not clear whether the two latest bombs had been set to go off on Friday , like one discovered and defused on Sunday , or whether they were freshly planted . |
| 26 | Smith was the latest to go off for examination of foot bruising , Nick Knight substituting briefly in the field . |
| 27 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 28 | I was told to go off to work . |
| 29 | In the photograph they are getting ready to go off to camp on their bikes ( velos ) . |
| 30 | They would like all the refugees to go off to Newham and similar boroughs , and for the Home Office to hear no more about the matter . |