Example sentences of "she [verb] off [prep] " 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 | Laura Mancinelli 's Mozart 's Ghost ( 1986 ) combines two rather donnish mysteries : the protagonist is pursued by ‘ anonymous ’ telephone calls which consist of nothing but music by Mozart ; when she is spared further harassment by the entire Turin telephone system seizing up , she goes off in pursuit of the concealed manuscript of Plato 's last dialogue . |
| 4 | In one , she signs off with : ‘ Take care . |
| 5 | I want her to talk to me , to tell me stories about her as a little girl , to play with me and look as I play , but she drifts off into herself . |
| 6 | Then she tottered off on her four-inch heels . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 11 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
| 12 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 13 | She stalked off into the house . |
| 14 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 15 | Then she flies off to Milan in search of a richer , darker continental flavour provided by smoothie Italian Marino Mase . |
| 16 | oh and Sharon said she got off with Carl |
| 17 | yeah , but she got off with him |
| 18 | She , she got off with Si again tonight . |
| 19 | She got off to a bad start on the streets as the child of Bruno Bonney , convicted pimp , pusher , armed robber and bilko artist . |
| 20 | Taking care not to swing the basket , she got off outside the gate of St Michael-in-the-Moor and walked across the green . |
| 21 | She hoots and is about to say something , but she holds off in front of Darius and squints at me to see what I mean . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And she moved off to her own prayers . |
| 25 | So she stopped off at her floor and hurried along to her room . |
| 26 | She stopped off in Britain yesterday on her way to Florida , from where she will take up to 1,250 passengers , pampered by 500 crew , on her maiden cruise to the Caribbean . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Señora Sunderby should have flown straight to Punta Arenas , but instead she stopped off in Lima . |
| 29 | She counts off on her hands , but gives up when she runs out of fingers . |
| 30 | She starts off in chicken stuffer 's uniform as seen in Letter To Brezhnev and ends up in designer punk bondage dress and boxing boots . |