Example sentences of "gone off [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brought them down here and then gone off along the cliff path with them . |
| 2 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 3 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 4 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 5 | I was only able to come because all the men have gone off to a meeting with Romanies from other camps . |
| 6 | ‘ She came for it soon after you 'd gone off to t' farm , ’ Aunt Nellie explained . |
| 7 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 8 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 9 | Yes , her mum and dad just gone off on a cruise for er , I do n't know |
| 10 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what I said , missis , gone off with a bloke . |
| 12 | We 're hoping against hope that she 's gone off with a friend or a boyfriend and will get in touch with her parents . |
| 13 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
| 14 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 15 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 16 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
| 17 | Fear of doors , entrances , gates etc. often occurs when a horse has been ( unwisely ) tied to a gate and has gone off with the gate ! ! |
| 18 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 19 | The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal . |
| 20 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 21 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 22 | Barry had gone off up the road on his bike . |
| 23 | Why had he not continued climbing over the gate , said good-night , and gone off down the hill ? |
| 24 | She was not disappointed ; if a firebell had gone off within a yard of his ear , he could not have appeared more shaken . |
| 25 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 26 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |
| 27 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
| 28 | Something must have come up , and she must have gone off in a hurry . |
| 29 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 30 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |