Example sentences of "she [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 5 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
| 6 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 7 | She stalked off into the house . |
| 8 | Taking care not to swing the basket , she got off outside the gate of St Michael-in-the-Moor and walked across the green . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the end she turned off to the right and there was I with nothing to look at . |
| 14 | Like a hare , she raced off down the ride . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Should she set off down the hill to meet him ? |
| 17 | And so they merely shook hands , and she walked off down the garden path to her door . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ sobbed Perdita , and , leaping on to Hermia 's back , she clattered off down the drive . |
| 20 | When her legs had stopped shaking sufficiently , she started off down the path again . |
| 21 | It is too long since I went to church — ’ she broke off as the coffee and cream cakes arrived . |
| 22 | Without waiting for an answer , she dashed off along the street and after the rapidly departing Harry . |
| 23 | Immediately after lunch , she dashed off to the kitchen and found one of the Trunchbull 's famous jugs . |
| 24 | After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her . |
| 25 | She wanders off to the studio , erm , a room in a house , her mum and dad 's house , to answer the phone . |
| 26 | Pete stood with the clipboard under his arm and his hands in his pockets , watching the dust behind her Toyota as she sped off down the service road . |
| 27 | Perhaps she drifted off in the bath . |
| 28 | She went off into the kitchen . |
| 29 | Ashley nodded , and , as she went off into the kitchen , Vitor took the little boy to collect his present . |
| 30 | And with that she went off to the shop to collect the miserable amount of provisions that were due . |