Example sentences of "she [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 4 | She goes off and Stuart , who has his own special tiny motor car , drives off to the north on her trail . |
| 5 | Erm she goes off on a Friday and you hear or see nothing till sort of Monday night . |
| 6 | So now they 're saying if she does n't , if she goes off again without her mother 's consent then they 'll take her into care . |
| 7 | So she goes off okay . |
| 8 | Yeah , she erm , she turns off er I ca n't tolerate that , you know , I ca n't Jean tell you about that |
| 9 | In one , she signs off with : ‘ Take care . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then she tottered off on her four-inch heels . |
| 13 | Only one , the Nevada , was able to get steam up but as she made off was struck by bombs and grounded . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 16 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 17 | She decided he was one fat pig in Wimbledon who was not , could not , should not be brought under the knife of the evil abattoir man who lives , in case you need to know , in Clifton Road just off the common , and the story of how she fought off his terrible friend Farmer Dune , and rallied all the pigs of Wimbledon is the greatest story ever told . |
| 18 | Seles broke Novotna to reach 3–2 and two games later reached a turning point in the match when she fought off four game points to break the Czechoslovak again . |
| 19 | I — ’ She bent her head , shaking it quickly as she fought off tears . |
| 20 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 21 | After that she stalked off and refused to come near me . |
| 22 | She stalked off into the house . |
| 23 | The coat was far too large for her and trailed the ground as she stalked off ; she did n't bother to hitch it up . |
| 24 | She stalked off , leaving Bernice shaken and alone . |
| 25 | She stalked off before she said something that he might regret , stepping accidentally on one of the deactivated security drones now littering the Base , and cracking its delicate shell . |
| 26 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 27 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
| 28 | Having delivered this Parthian shot , she stalked off to find a taxi home . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , there 's no need to be rude ! ’ the woman snapped , and snatching up her bag , she stalked off . |
| 30 | And with that she stalked off , head held high , and it was only later when she calmed down that she realised he still thought Mick had stayed the night . |