Example sentences of "take her [noun] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , your Lucy has got you winding her chain , darling , and she just wo n't take her feet off the ground and let go — am I right ? ’ |
| 2 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 3 | She wished she 'd brought something to do that would take her mind off her anxiety if only for a moment . |
| 4 | Cooking lunch for a guest might at least take her mind off the intractable problem of Samantha for a while . |
| 5 | From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride . |
| 6 | It would n't settle the shaky future of a family business painstakingly built up with love and commitment , it would n't alter the shock of Mortimer 's twisted values … but it would definitely take her mind off it all for a while . |
| 7 | With any luck , it would take her mind off Matthew Blake . |
| 8 | She walked towards her office , plenty to do there which might take her mind off these worries by substituting others . |
| 9 | She did n't take her eyes off him for a moment . |
| 10 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 11 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 12 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 13 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 14 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 15 | Polly did n't dare take her eyes off the compass . |
| 16 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 17 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |
| 18 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 19 | And why would she not take her eyes off me ? |
| 20 | She did n't take her eyes off Frank . |
| 21 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |