Example sentences of "went off [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After they had all left — Dad too — Mum hung Granny 's death card beneath her picture then went off to join the others in the local . |
| 2 | With a friendly pat on his arm , she went off to join the dancing , and practically walked into the waiting Feargal . |
| 3 | ‘ He wo n't , then , for he took the cross in the summer , after he 'd placed me here , and went off to join the Bishop of Winchester in the Holy Land , ’ said young Blount delightedly . |
| 4 | ‘ Sure , ’ Doyle replied then went off to serve the customer . |
| 5 | The meeting was mostly a ‘ Fun out of doors ’ one , so Jill soon went off to search the wood to complete her collection of ferns . |
| 6 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 7 | Walter Hardy used the boathook to push it into the shallows , and then went off to borrow a small motor cruiser so that he 'd be able to tow the carcase out to one of the marshy islands further down the lake . |
| 8 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 9 | After half an hour he went off to watch the match against the Chelsea of Ian Porterfied , his erstwhile colleague . |
| 10 | Then they went off to rout the Scottish and Royalist forces . |
| 11 | The head waiter went off to order a taxi , looking puzzled . |
| 12 | Connor went off to draw a couple of pints behind the bar , as Ruth shook hands with the young man . |
| 13 | Timpson then went off to strafe the road , leaving Schott with his men , a 3-tonner and a broken-down jeep . |
| 14 | Thereupon , Anselm went off to spend the summer months in the hill village of Liberi above Capua , and here he found a renewed peace of mind and spirit which he had not known since his days as prior of Bec . |
| 15 | However , when she disappeared into the powder room at the hotel where they stopped for lunch on the way back to London and Dunbar went off to book a table in the restaurant , he and Aubrey had a moment alone together . |
| 16 | And then erm after the rehearsal some of us went off to get a pizza before the concert and he said to me , erm are you interested in going to hear the Mozart Requiem , it 's on at the Barbican on Wednesday ? |
| 17 | Piers made some feeble joke and went off to get the lunch from the car with Peter . |
| 18 | I checked everything in at the left-luggage office in Liverpool Street station , and then went off to make a couple of telephone calls . |
| 19 | Dorothea sat her down and padded her in with cushions , smiled vaguely and went off to make the tea . |
| 20 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 21 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 22 | White faced the official carpeting , defused the attacks with a firm but polite dignity , and went off to catch the next train unaffected by the experience . |
| 23 | Half way through the day 's programme of shows , while the dressers went off to grab a sandwich and the model girls , who would not dare to eat while they were showing , revived themselves with cups of black coffee , Madame Mattli took Paula to one side . |
| 24 | He then went off to cut the nettles under the straggling roses , satisfied that water , should it ever reappear , would no longer escape from the pool . |
| 25 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 26 | The two Frenchwomen greeted one another with affectionate kisses and Madame Gebrec promptly went off to organise the lunch , leaving her two visitors to chat . |
| 27 | Two cyclists eventually stopped and went off to raise the alarm . |
| 28 | The others went off to have a bite to eat before beginning their checks on the Sardinian shepherds they had picked out . |
| 29 | Fortunately a lorry driver was washing in the basin , so while he went off to have a shit in one of the cabinets , I rifled his spongebag and pinched a disposable razor . |
| 30 | But after an hour Leonora grew bored and irritable with herself and went off to have a bath . |