Example sentences of "go off to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Next October , armed with two As and a B ( he original mark in English ) , he goes off to Manchester University to read French . |
| 4 | And he goes off to school , and he tells all his mates . |
| 5 | When the child goes off to university or leaves home |
| 6 | I do n't really want to be cope with Deborah and Catherine the day Clare goes off to Isle of Wight do we ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was told to go off to work . |
| 14 | In the photograph they are getting ready to go off to camp on their bikes ( velos ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So to pay the rent he had to go off to Czechoslovakia and Australia to do films he knew were n't much good . |
| 17 | Deafness , however , did not prevent him from going off to South Africa and taking part in the Boer War . |
| 18 | He wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 19 | You wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 20 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 21 | By the time I was ten , Granpa allowed me to lay out the morning wares on the barrow before going off to school for the day . |
| 22 | Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books ! |
| 23 | ‘ Going off to London today , are you , miss , and on your own too , wo n't you let me come with you ? ’ |
| 24 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 25 | A year later , having done a super job as Editorial Assistant before going off to university last autumn , we finally got around to organising the lesson ! |
| 26 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 27 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 28 | He 's been with him since primary school , it 'll be nice to go to , cos they 're going off to America when they 've finished |
| 29 | A fellow whose hip operation and general physical incapacity does n't stop him going off to gaming-houses gets my vote , even if he does have a tendency to gurn on endlessly about obscure dates in the past of no interest to anyone . ’ |
| 30 | In speaking of Molla Fenari 's going off to Karaman ( probably in 805/1402–3 ) , moreover , he says that " he abandoned his posts . |