Example sentences of "went off to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't tell no one about it , just went off to church quietly by ourselves . |
| 2 | Back in Frenchay , Caroline , who has never got things out of perspective , changed out of her special Palace outfit and went off to choir practice as if nothing had happened . |
| 3 | While the Collector went off to bed in the middle of the day , Harry made a round of the Residency wheel accompanied by the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , festooned in lengths of chain . |
| 4 | As it happens , he went off to bed quite happily . |
| 5 | So , course a bit later we all went off to bed and er well I , the next thing I remember were was er me father coming grabbing out to me and me brother , and chucking us more or less out of ou get off downstairs and get under the table ! |
| 6 | She had a private word with Iain in the after cabin , then put her anorak on over her dress and went off to bed , escorted by Captain Freddie . |
| 7 | After dinner we would sit looking out over the three arms of the lake and talk until , drowsy with sun , swimming , food and wine , we went off to bed . |
| 8 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 9 | In the morning Dot went off to school and he was n't there . |
| 10 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 11 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 12 | She could n't eat any of her meal and went off to school where she had to sit alongside Mr Clark 's daughter . |
| 13 | Lisa was up early next morning and on the phone to Emily , anxious to speak to her daughter before she went off to school . |
| 14 | They could sense a difference in the days now , sometimes there was almost a rime of frost on the shady side of the woods , and the old pony 's cost was thickening ; in the mornings they went off to school . |
| 15 | So she went off to school . |
| 16 | When I left the laundry and the kitchen where I received my basic formation as a novice , I went off to university . |
| 17 | ‘ From what I understand , you broke off your romance with him and went off to university to pursue your qualifications . |
| 18 | In 1972 I went off to university were I could find no handle on art history until I read Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists ? and discovered that research could replace airy-fairy ‘ lack of genius ’ answers with concrete ‘ lack of education ’ answers . |
| 19 | what he wanted to do and and then he got a reasonable pass and went off to university . |
| 20 | But Jamie longed for adventure and , while still a boy , he joined the crew of a boat at Ayr harbour and went off to sea . |
| 21 | From its lofty position one can see the parish of his birth , the route by which his mother took him to Ayr , the town of Ayr in which he ran errands as a boy , the harbour from which he went off to sea , and all of the land that was his estate of Orangefield . |
| 22 | But Charles dithered and went off to sea . |
| 23 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |
| 24 | So they all went off to lunch with the mayor , while a messenger was sent to the Registrar of Births , Marriages and Deaths to get the necessary information . |
| 25 | The three of us often went off to ordnance depots where Eric bent all his efforts to persuading whoever was in charge to donate a load of blankets ( which made excellent winter coats and suits ) or , if he was trying to help a doctor , a set of motor tyres , which were worth their weight in gold . |
| 26 | During the war he sold his interest in his galleries and went off to war ; following this six-year closure he reopened the Hans Road gallery but decided not to reopen the American galleries ; it was hard enough to get the good material for one shop . |
| 27 | When her son Arnold went off to war , Emily felt completely at a loss , and was grateful for any help that was offered her . |
| 28 | Suppose , then , that such a tenant went off to war , from a sense of duty either to his King or to his God , or in the hope of booty , not knowing if and when he would return . |
| 29 | People stepped in and separated us and we both went off to hospital . |
| 30 | I went off to milady 's boudoir . |