Sentence examples for go off by from inspiring English sources

They go off by themselves, and he asks her to come along.

But when Bowman and Poole become concerned that HAL's programming has failed, they go off by themselves in the space pod to discuss disconnecting HAL's "brain". Unbeknownst to them, HAL is reading their lips and soon begins murdering the crew.

Don't go off by yourself.

I could go off by myself someplace.

She is a painter, whose rich husband allows her to go off by herself.

They tend to prefer to go off by themselves to think, rather than thinking out loud.

Like a Bomb Going Off, by Janice Ross (Yale).

Emma: And each of the other Girls had gone off by themselves.

The lights go off, one by one — the dressing-room lights, the mirror lights.

"The gun went off by itself?" Gerrie Nel, the prosecutor, asked.

Next morning, the boy goes off by himself to see the loons.