Example sentences of "go off in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NYUP ! goes off in a couple of hundred limey brains — and are ignored . |
| 2 | Have you ever noticed the response when a car alarm goes off in a busy street ? |
| 3 | The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap . |
| 4 | Does n't matter if the ball goes off in the , or when you 're running a hoop , it just comes back up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |
| 7 | Eleven tricks made for a very good score , as several other declarers had actually contrived to go off in the same contract . |
| 8 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 9 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 10 | Fireworks were going off in the city , in advance of Halloween . |
| 11 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 12 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |
| 13 | It does have the advantage of the computer not going off in the heat of the moment and hurting some innocent bank clerk , though . ’ |
| 14 | You do n't have to remember any words or facts or anything difficult like that — you just go off in a sort of coma and think how wonderful you are . |
| 15 | ‘ When the alarms go off in the house , they 'll go on in Central Station . |
| 16 | Is not that comment on security even more staggering than the bombs that go off in the city , although all such bombings are to be condemned and deplored ? |
| 17 | When a strong concentration of sodium chloride is placed near to paramecium they turn and go off in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
| 19 | Something must have come up , and she must have gone off in a hurry . |
| 20 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 21 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 22 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 23 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |
| 24 | If they formulate detailed hypotheses and produce elaborate questionnaires or interview schedules without first carrying out informal interviews they may well go off in a completely fruitless direction and have only themselves to blame when they end up with several hundred completed forms , none of which have asked the right questions about the right key factors . |
| 25 | And she sang a few bars into the mouthpiece , swaying a little , watching the lights go off in the theatre . |
| 26 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market . |
| 28 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 29 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 30 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |