Example sentences of "she [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back . |
| 2 | Erm she goes off on a Friday and you hear or see nothing till sort of Monday night . |
| 3 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 4 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 5 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 7 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
| 8 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 9 | She stalked off into the house . |
| 10 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 11 | She got off to a bad start on the streets as the child of Bruno Bonney , convicted pimp , pusher , armed robber and bilko artist . |
| 12 | Taking care not to swing the basket , she got off outside the gate of St Michael-in-the-Moor and walked across the green . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 14 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 15 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 16 | With a quick wave she darted off through the clusters of people , and Caroline was left facing Roman , abruptly gripped by shyness as well as the usual quietly simmering resentment . |
| 17 | Then she roared off in an estate car with the baby in the back . |
| 18 | She came off to a reasonable round . |
| 19 | At the end she turned off to the right and there was I with nothing to look at . |
| 20 | Like a hare , she raced off down the ride . |
| 21 | Not many miles from the Manchurian border , the Siberian wind gusting the powdered snow round her heels , a suitcase in either hand , one still decorated ludicrously with kettle and saucepan , fur rug over her shoulders , she crunched off into the night . |
| 22 | She takes off from a field behind the hospital . |
| 23 | Should she set off down the hill to meet him ? |
| 24 | And so they merely shook hands , and she walked off down the garden path to her door . |
| 25 | I ca n't take my eyes off this beautiful woman and as if sensing my gaze she hurries off to the adjoining room to get dressed . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ sobbed Perdita , and , leaping on to Hermia 's back , she clattered off down the drive . |
| 27 | When her legs had stopped shaking sufficiently , she started off down the path again . |
| 28 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 29 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |
| 30 | She broke off as a man 's voice called from the staircase : ‘ What 's all this dam ’ talking ? |