Example sentences of "[pron] go off to fight " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well have been used to make bows for local archers who went off to fight in the battle of Agincourt . |
| 2 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |
| 3 | But they should put in little sort of qualifications like er er they gave people land and if they went off to fight then it would be guaranteed that the land would be tilled . |
| 4 | He was a dragon , but he went off to fight in Russia , poor boy . |
| 5 | 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 . |