Example sentences of "went off for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on .
2 She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire .
3 Then they all went off for a visit to the zoo
4 Corporal Ryan , the Irish Corporal , went off for a week 's leave in Marseilles and , for an unknown reason , killed himself with a hunting rifle in a hotel in the Old port .
5 ‘ I hate my fat knees , ’ she said , and went off for a ten-mile hike .
6 They had n't said much to me apart from announcing themselves as Detective-Sergeant Hatchard and Detective Constable White , and even when they got back inside , Hatchard talked to the pathologist while White went off for a snoop around , as policemen do .
7 ‘ He stayed in his room when his wife went off for a jaunt round Oxford , remember ?
8 Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around .
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