Example sentences of "go off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a guest checks in the receptionist allocates a room showing a green light ; he or she presses a switch and the green light goes off on the board as well as on the cashier 's and housekeeper 's boards . |
| 2 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 3 | A complaint goes off to the powers . |
| 4 | She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back . |
| 5 | As Colin ( looking wasted as in exhausted ) goes off to the tour bus to sleep and Jhelisa disappears with a relative , he hangs out with various fans . |
| 6 | Two miles into the hills , the track to Shenavall bothy goes off to the right . |
| 7 | Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left . |
| 8 | The community is signposted " Durrenroth " at a side road that goes off to the right ( and later rejoins the main road further on ) . |
| 9 | Shortly beyond Huswil , at Gettnau ( 10km , 6 miles from Huttwil ) road 23 continues straight ahead east to Sursee ( on the Sempacher Lake ) , but take instead a branch that goes off to the right for Willisau , a thirteenth-century foundation . |
| 10 | We start each day as the farmer goes off to the milking , between 5 and 6 a.m . |
| 11 | Dad goes off to the gin shop , gallant daughter stays up to put the old soak to bed . ’ |
| 12 | The material for printing usually goes off to the printer on the Tuesday , when the noticeboards are changed . |
| 13 | So at one extreme you 've got the explorer who simply goes off into the unknown . |
| 14 | Jesus , filled with the Spirit , goes off into the wilderness , the place where Israel had been tested for forty . |
| 15 | and all that , then he took no notice of that , now do n't tip them silly , what the bloody hell you doing that for ? , do n't be so daft , so any way , then Stuart goes off into the showers and turns the showers on |
| 16 | The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap . |
| 17 | Does n't matter if the ball goes off in the , or when you 're running a hoop , it just comes back up . |
| 18 | I mean , what we know about what goes off in the courts , i is is entirely dependent on which particular reporter happens to be reporting . |
| 19 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 20 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 21 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 22 | In the 1920s , Dundas Hamilton 's father , Arthur Hamilton , used to go off to the Stock Exchange each day with a bag containing socks and shoes . |
| 23 | And as a business , politician and freemason , it was only natural to go off to the golf course on a Sunday . |
| 24 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 25 | So these are now ready to go off to the specialists , okay . |
| 26 | He had screeched to a halt in the residents ' parking bay in an unimpressed Hereford Road , let himself in , banged on his own door and , keeping his distance , ordered Jacqui to go off to the pictures for the afternoon . |
| 27 | I would have to go off to the lavatory , come back and start the same scene with a variation . |
| 28 | Charity exchanged a few pleasantries , then , at a look from her mother , excused herself to go off to the kitchen , leaving Leonora alone with Mrs Vaughan . |
| 29 | Rockets continued to go off outside the building . |
| 30 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |