Example sentences of "we go off [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | We went off to go see Husbands And Wives , because one of the actresses in that was going to be in the film , someone I was n't that keen on . |
2 | ‘ What sort of accommodation have you got in Harwich ? ’ she asked , as we went off to sit down in the lounge . |
3 | Odd-Knut picked us up again and we went off to buy him and Tony some beer , available in Norway only at government alcohol shops . |
4 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |
5 | We sang marching across the muddy fields in front of the farmhouse , we sang in the cookhouse tent before we were allowed to eat , we sang at parade before we went off to exercise , and at any point that the staff thought we had nothing to do , it was out with the songbooks . |
6 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |