Example sentences of "go off [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 2 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 3 | He describes what happens after a typical Russian business deal : ‘ One man goes off to find the goods and the other to find the money . |
| 4 | He decides he must do something about it and goes off to find the works engineer . |
| 5 | ‘ Therese does n't want him to go off to paint the Belgian ambassador 's wife . ’ |
| 6 | Well , it all sounds great , very interesting indeed , I 'm just going off to do a play in Wales for five weeks … |
| 7 | But if , by any chance , the reporter 's wife or husband also happens to be an Environmental Health Officer somewhere else , and happens to know that he or she is going off to do an interview , and say , ‘ Hey . |
| 8 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 9 | On arrival at the log cabin he insisted : ‘ Well , I 'm going off to catch a bear with my bare hands : who 's coming with me ? ’ |
| 10 | Middle-ranking staff from Accounts go off to sample the city 's famously steamy nightclubs in the company of a bevy of angelic recorders . |
| 11 | It aims to ‘ increase the opportunities for childcare , and to encourage employers to think about what happens when employees go off to have a baby and [ to consider ] career breaks ’ . |
| 12 | Edward had gone off to see an editor at the BBC ; he wanted to talk about a project on the Third World , and the boy was at school . |
| 13 | And while we 're waiting for them , Bill Saltman 's gone off to direct the establishment of white slavery in South America . |
| 14 | Then he had gone off to have a full breakfast in the canteen . |
| 15 | I think they have gone off to tell the rest of their family what happened . ’ |
| 16 | Without any hesitation , he had gone off to confront a possible intruder . |
| 17 | Have n't seen Dan in there for a long time , I thought he 'd left Lionel and gone off to get a a highly lucrative job somewhere You do n't somehow expect to see a , a young man with a university degree working in your local green grocer do you ? |
| 18 | After they had all left — Dad too — Mum hung Granny 's death card beneath her picture then went off to join the others in the local . |
| 19 | With a friendly pat on his arm , she went off to join the dancing , and practically walked into the waiting Feargal . |
| 20 | ‘ He wo n't , then , for he took the cross in the summer , after he 'd placed me here , and went off to join the Bishop of Winchester in the Holy Land , ’ said young Blount delightedly . |
| 21 | ‘ Sure , ’ Doyle replied then went off to serve the customer . |
| 22 | The meeting was mostly a ‘ Fun out of doors ’ one , so Jill soon went off to search the wood to complete her collection of ferns . |
| 23 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 24 | Walter Hardy used the boathook to push it into the shallows , and then went off to borrow a small motor cruiser so that he 'd be able to tow the carcase out to one of the marshy islands further down the lake . |
| 25 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 26 | After half an hour he went off to watch the match against the Chelsea of Ian Porterfied , his erstwhile colleague . |
| 27 | Then they went off to rout the Scottish and Royalist forces . |
| 28 | The head waiter went off to order a taxi , looking puzzled . |
| 29 | Connor went off to draw a couple of pints behind the bar , as Ruth shook hands with the young man . |
| 30 | Timpson then went off to strafe the road , leaving Schott with his men , a 3-tonner and a broken-down jeep . |