Example sentences of "going off [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he signs it will be like all the fireworks going off on Bonfire Night . ’ |
| 2 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 3 | I was so excited to be a young bride going off on tour to Europe . |
| 4 | But free or not , no one should stop her going off with Midnight anywhere . |
| 5 | ‘ As I was going off at half-time , the lad who tackled me came up and said ‘ I 'm sorry , but it was only a little tap ’ . ’ |
| 6 | He wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 7 | You wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She is going off to work , but in the meantime we have had to send her son home with the Head of Primary Department ( see his diary ) . |
| 16 | Well if you see him going off to golf |
| 17 | Some little groups were going off to west and east , but most hung on with a sense that the next thing now demanded to be done . |
| 18 | So it looks as if it 's going off to infinity or something , but |
| 19 | Between leaving school and going off to war with the Navy , he had worked on the Sharpness tugs for British Waterways . |
| 20 | But Fraser , pressed on the question of value for money resorted to other arguments : " they are more economical , but they are not so satisfactory , they are always going off for sickness of some kind or another , or their mother is ill or something of that kind — that is the greatest trouble , their mother is ill constantly " . |
| 21 | But this time it was different , they were all going off for Christmas as soon as their kid arrived . |
| 22 | He keeps going off into cloud cuckoo land ! |
| 23 | I did n't know if there was lanes going off into town , whe or oh I do n't know . |
| 24 | Good good a anything going off of note ? |
| 25 | Males , therefore , generally wait until the female has started to lay her eggs before going off in search of a second mate , since females rarely mate again once laying has begun . |
| 26 | Yeah he says that there were a right slanging match going off in town . |