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Don't pay any attention to what he said, He's always going off half-cocked.

I cannot believe she's going off to university. Seems like only last week she was still just a bairn .

This skier really meant it when he said he was going off-piste as he leapt off a mountain cliff face and landed safely 600 feet below.

Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.

Going off on foreign holidays is all well and good, but you've got to get back to reality sometime.

Pasteur found it in a piece of practical science: he was trying to prevent food going off.

Prof Prasad said: "The engines of world growth are running out of steam while the trailing wagons are going off the rails. "

Or your physician might suggest going off the drug for a few weeks to see if your memory improves.

To them, the little Maltese girl was going off on her great journey into the next life, alone and a little frightened.

"Japan shouldn't be making such a fuss about this, " he said before going off to have his waistline measured.

Experienced riders will like this surf place. When it's going off, it would be more than just a gnarly ride for surfers.

The Royal Society, Britain's science academy, is curious as to why British youngsters seem to be going off studying computing at school.

He thought he was going off the rails when he saw a strange animal sitting in the middle of the road.

I don't want to have anything to do with you any more, I'm packing up my things and going off to mother.

Every siren in this area was going off like it was an air raid.

Make sure that your text driver handles scrolling the text on the screen upward before going off the bottom.

Or here in Paris, where I live now, my children's friends are always going off to stay with grandparents for weeks at a time.

Events like a timer going off or the phone ringing can be monitored in such a way.

When that monster club smashes the ball, the sound produced is "like a gun going off. "

Pups can swim within hours of their birth but stay with their mothers for up to two years before going off on their own.

The ship of state is going off the rails ' is mixed metaphor.

The final match delayed for nearly half all hour due to a fire alarm going off and a faulty pin- setter.

But my mother, at the age of 10, felt on top of the world about her soldier brother going off to war.

the butler might say, before going off to see to the damp ironing of the garment.

"That much ordnance going off would be the equivalent of an earthquake " Cartwright told me.

A trader who hid a potential $10m loss from his bosses after going off on a long lunch has been handed a two-year ban by the City watchdog.

I tried to count but it was like a fire alarm going off.

He is still only 52, and he is going off to spend more time guiding the world's richest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

And the bee has been cleverly fooled into taking the nectar, and also picking up some powder on its leg, and going off to the next blossom.

Reaching for a cell phone when it's going off, you're nine times more likely to get into an accident than normally driving.

Jane seems to be going off Peter.

The Mavs forced us to adjust tonight. . . they really continued to do whatever they wanted to do out there, even when T-mac was going off.

This study was of particular interest to me because I have a 17-year-old daughter who will be going off to college in a little over a year.

Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle.

This station is now going off the air until tomorrow.

You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset; she's going off about something that you said.

She sometimes flew in to nibble his ear and have a bit of toast before going off to sleep in the owlery with the other school owls.

Going off on a redesign will consume all your resources and time, the redesign may get sidetracked or never finished.

Why does the rustle of sheets wake us up on some nights, but we sleep through the sound of our alarm clocks going off on others?

Three of the BBC language services are going off air later, as a result of cuts to the World Service budget.

He writes that going off of ISBN numbers alone won't yield an accurate number, partly because ISBN isn't used in non-Western countries.

We were in a bunker and there were bombs going off everywhere.

But when she heard his Senate idea, she began to wonder if this optimistic dreamer was going off the deep end.

Before going off the grid, some people prepare by notifying clients and enlisting the support of colleagues.

I don't know. He walked up and started going off on her again.

They swayed as they sang, carrying swords and rifles and performing a traditional dance of tribesman going off to war or returning home.

There were air guns going off every few seconds or so, and someone somewhere was always hammering away at something.

We'd been having the same argument for 23 years, and now that he was going off to law school I thought it was time for him to shape up.

The poster above was in Guangzhou, at a news bureau, just before going off to the university to speak.

Giscard said that he considered ending the book with the president going off with the Corsican doctor.

You and I kept that bomb from going off.

It all started happening ever since he became the Prime Minister. Ever since he started going off to America, day after day.

When you're going off for two weeks, tidying your desk gives you a nice sense of closure.

With kids going off to college soon, many parents are facing the prospects of living in an empty house.

we were friends with everyone on board columbia and knew their families well . we were going off to their welcome home party in houston.

Interrupt latency The time between an interrupt going off and the interrupt being serviced by the operating system.

If each software development team is going off in their own directions, chaos will ensue.

I've lined my bags with tin foil before, to stop the alarms from going off, but they've changed the systems now.

I had hoped that , as the meal progressed , Park would loosen up. But there is no room for going off-script .

Trains running on termite-eaten sleepers are running the risk of going off the rails.

Seeing that she was going off to sleep, I asked if she'd like that little doll on her bed.

The Italian followed up his strike in 1982 by going off on a memorable run, screaming his own name like you would in the playground.

While the West goes about its business, Russia gains nothing by going off into a corner to sulk.

Depending on their mental health history, these women may attempt tapering and going off their medications if symptom-free.

It's hard dating someone famous and having flash bulbs going off in your face all the time, but it's not impossible.

The blast is actually a series of bursts, like a string of firecrackers going off one after another.

And I know that watching that atomic bomb going off had a very very big impact on my late father.

However, when someone is flickering the lights on and off intermittently, the lights are suddenly going off and on.

Carry a sleeping bag, a tent, kerosene stove, a pot and some freeze dried food if you are going off the beaten track.

The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe's opinion was corroborated.

Oil money pays for the bombs going off from Baghdad to Beirut, and the bombast of dictators from Caracas to Tehran.

By Wednesday, when the staff moved to a safer location farther away, the alarm was going off constantly, recalled Mr. Yokota.

In one instance, with two laptops being used nearby, the plane's clock spun backwards and GPS readings began going off.

The players trains in the morning and meet at Stamford Bridge in the evening before going off to a hotel.

Of course, it has U. S. military reporting on all sorts of abuses by the Taliban, suicide bombers, IEDs going off, and so on.

For women, it's the other way around - they're more troubled by their male partner going off with another man.

They became real friends while playing them on TV. That won't end because the show is going off the air. They can't just turn that off.

Firecrackers and fireworks are already going off in Beijing, in anticipation.

I always imagined us going off on great adventures once we were together.

The lecture was curtailed by the fire alarm going off.

Even if China felt the United States was going off a cliff, there's no other place for them to put their money.

For instance, in this and the Reporting Cheaters threads, I state quite clearly that any posts going off topic will be deleted.

You are going off the subject, aren't you?

Having the group involved also gives you time to reorganize your thoughts if things are going off track.

Imagine waking up as your alarm's going off, reaching over and opening a window. . . and gazing out at terra firma in repose.

There are many variations on this, but these are styles where the hair may be standing straight up, or going off in various directions.

If they had fun going off to the country, taking Snoop with them, of course, they had many more good times on arriving at the farm.

Every time going off work, he was always doing extra odd jobs, such as painting homes, installing appliances and keeping gardens in order.

There is an automatic mechanism for shifting the recording pen to keep it from going off scale.

No, because you're easy. I'm just going off what you said.

Ed Davis showed flashes of his potential in last April's NCAA title game, going off for 11 and 8 in only 14 minutes of action.

I'm just going off on my own here, okay?

Gib: Yeah, and her little hormones are going off like a car alarm.

Don't worry; I'm not going off the new age deep-end here.

And when the speech was over, they blasted confetti from the stage, they had fireworks going off in the fields.

Yeah, and her little hormones are going off like a car alarm.

Her going off in such a hurry is very risky.

This fruit is going off rapidly.

CHARLES: And everybody's going off to enlist, they're going right away.

Now I have to say, 'But when you have these fluctuations, which is not a rare occurrence, you can have substorms going off once an hour. '

With the whistle going off, we had to say goodbye and gave a big hug to each other firmly, waving to them with the warmth and sincerity.

So then people would start saying, "I'm going off to visit Quincy. "

I'm sorry my lecture has been going off-the-track.

Those goods are going off splendidly.

Frank Lampard played 64 minutes, going off at 2-0. Joe Cole played the whole game. Glen Johnson played just the second-half and was booked.

This sensor will alert you when the maze has passages going off to the left.

After some discussion of this, Mr Ma's eyes begin darting about: he can hear mobile phones going off in the sales department.

She and Horace are going off to Greece next week.

And then all of a sudden I was going off the road!

In this province, there are many mature oil and gas fields of which some are going off plateau.

She's going off traveling again-she's got really itchy feet.

Our burglar alarm is forever going off for no reason.

Most of them are going off to Guangzhou next week.

No longer does retirement mean going off to some quiet corner to wait for death.

We've got this amazing moulin going off here today.

Speeding up its history you can see the stars be going off like firecrackers.

That (winning the cup) was for John going off like that.

I'm packing up my things and going off to mother.

No, not just "going off-site to sing to each other" , as Prof Cross puts it.

I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight.

but tomorrow that bomb's going off.

'Your Pa's a going off, Miss Floy, tomorrow morning. '

Okay. Look at you. Hands going off immediately now.

I'm going off now to another city.

I don't know what i want to do yet, and--and going off to a new place to figure that out? I don't know.

Are you looking forward to the time off or would you prefer to be going off and trying lots of news parts?

And this alarm started going off in my head.

But, nothing can replace going off to another country and getting to know the people and customs in their own settings.

keeps Going Off In My Building.

When she crashed instead of going off the mountain, they had to improvise .

Is a light-bulb going off?

Lately, the flashes have been going off more and more frequently.

Wifi internet in the room was quite slow and kept going off but didnt really matter.

Ok, we have an alarm going off right now.

Silence means not just going off to sleep or this or that.

I can't help it. You're going off to college. It's a big day.

There's no pistol going off and we all run and the guy who does it under 10 seconds comes in 1st.

He was going off shift soon.

When are you going off for your holiday?

Hallo, youngster! are you going off without paying?

JANE: Hello, Betty. When are you going off to Guangzhou?

When are you going off to the downtown for shopping?

Hello, Betty. When are you going off to Guangzhou?

Leave for e. G. When are you going off to Shanghai?

I'll complain to the shop; this meat started going off the same day that I bought it.

When are you going off to Guangzhou?

After going off work, the accountant has to do a part-time job because he needs money to buy a house.

She might be unfaithful in thought yet you believe she is faithful because you don't actually see her going off with someone else;

I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

Anti-Japanese demonstrations run the risk of going off-script

She's going off about something that you said

she's going off something that you said

shes going off about something that you said 'cuz

i almost feel that it is i who am going off