Example sentences of "went off in the " in BNC.

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1 Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium .
2 About forty-five minutes later three huge explosions went off in the Wilkerson house , the force of which blew Dustin 's $700 desk through a hole in the wall .
3 Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury .
4 Only when Juha went off in the morning could we have a bit of a rest . ’
5 It went off in the gents ' toilet on the ground floor .
6 ‘ Plancius ’ was anchored some way offshore because of shallow water and reefs , so when the first party went off in the inflatable , we could see no land at all and had to steer by compass .
7 He went off in the direction of some green doors that bore the legend ‘ Narcissus Clothing ’ , muttering , ‘ That 'll do , that 'll do . ’
8 ‘ Fernand went off in the tractor soon after lunch , ’ said Sue .
9 He went off in the direction of the river and the dark bulk of the flatboat .
10 A firebomb also went off in the Plaza shopping centre in Oxford Street , London , on Wednesday morning .
11 Pulling her cloak around her and laying her fork carefully along the wooden pegs on the side of the wain , Alexandra climbed the iron railings , already cold and slippery with new snow , and went off in the direction of the kitchen .
12 In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , Belfast , was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park .
13 The building was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park .
14 The bomb went off in the public gallery , destroying the visitors ' area and blowing a hole through an external wall .
15 ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay .
16 ‘ Tuesday was the day he went off in the van and came back with a bruised face ; presumably you 've got a record of the people he called on that day ?
17 The anniversary of that incident was ‘ celebrated ’ on May 9 last month when firebombs went off in the shopping mall of The Galleries shopping centre at Bristol , at the opposite end of the country .
18 At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks .
19 No I went off in the car with They climbed over the fence .
20 We had hundreds of er identity cards and ration books , all of which are on display in the library , coupled with some extraordinary things ; er a wedding dress made out of a parachute , and an empty incendiary bomb — I stress empty , I 'd hate to think it went off in the library .
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