Example sentences of "go off [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke , the Siberian Husky , belongs to my friend — a romantic novelist , who sometimes needs to go off alone to research her books . |
| 2 | ‘ She said she was going off somewhere to meditate before the afternoon session . |
| 3 | Those few that escape being eaten form pairs and go off together to find a nest site in a crevice in the ground or a crack in a tree . |
| 4 | Apart from that one time when Gloria went off instead to cheer the King , Dot could n't remember a day when they had n't been to visit whatever hospital he was in . |
| 5 | Any question of taking her into Penzance had to be abandoned and Harriet went off alone to do the weekly shopping , thankful to be able to leave Edna in charge of Celia and trying not to feel guilty that she actually preferred such expeditions without her daughter 's company . |
| 6 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 7 | So I just went off quietly to run my bath , a sad and disappointed old man . |
| 8 | I remember when the Andy Warhol lot came with Pork to The Roundhouse — we all went off specially to see them and meet them afterwards . ’ |