Example sentences of "off her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With one swift , violent movement he tore off her bikini top , exposing her breasts to his gaze . |
| 2 | Charsky raised himself on an elbow and picked up the mug of coffee , while Anna slipped off her dressing gown and climbed into bed . |
| 3 | Then the ever-watchful Jonas would come to the rescue , gently introducing a new topic so that she would shake off her mood with a diffident smile . |
| 4 | Martha turned and shook off her idleness , realising that the old woman would continue enumerating chores if she were not distracted . |
| 5 | He took off her jacket , her grimy shirt . |
| 6 | She took off her jacket and slung it down on the settee . |
| 7 | I knew something was going to happen because Miss [ E ] took off her jacket and rolled up her sleeves . |
| 8 | Taking off her jacket , she dropped it over the back of a chair and picked distastefully at the damp folds of her burgundy skirt . |
| 9 | She came bustling into the kitchen , exuding good humour and exotic perfume as she took off her jacket and put on her overall . |
| 10 | Pulling off her bright headscarf , tossing off her jacket , she threw off apologies at the same time . |
| 11 | He pulled off her jacket , then , gripping both her wrists in one hand , he forced her arms back above her head , and trailed his other hand over her half-naked body in a rapid exploration that made her undulate with pleasure , despite herself . |
| 12 | Just a bit tired , that 's all , ’ she mumbled as she shrugged off her jacket . |
| 13 | Quickly stripping off her gown , which had become soaked again , she sat down by the fire and began to comb through her wet , tangled hair with her fingers , holding the strands to the blaze to dry . |
| 14 | Amy helped him up and showed him to the door while Kath stripped off her gown and gloves . |
| 15 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 16 | Not since the first time in the gloomy training tunnel deep underground had the panic risen in her as the rubber closed around her nose and mouth , momentarily sealing off her breathing , like a parasitic thing covering her face . |
| 17 | Alice stood back away from the trapdoor up into the attic so that she was out of Philip 's sight , and took off her sweat shirt . |
| 18 | Barbara takes off her shirt and wraps a blue chiffon nightie around her waist ; while Elena is in the loo , she opens her purse and shows me a picture of her six-year-old daughter . |
| 19 | She slipped off her robe and came to him , stepping into the shower beside him , then gave a small shriek . |
| 20 | Inanna made a growling sound , threw off her robe , and crawled back between the bedcovers . |
| 21 | ‘ Because my aunt — Emily 's mother — thought it was time we … ’ he gestured to Emily , who was peeling off her eggshell , ‘ … time we met . ’ |
| 22 | So she had no idea , when her antics were effective , how she was using herself up in her efforts to ward off her disappearance from the world , in her girlish desire to please . |
| 23 | Slowly Ruth peeled off her vest-top and wriggled out of her shorts . |
| 24 | Even in our short journey the taxi driver had spoken of the soukoyant , the witch who takes off her skin at night and flies about like a bat . |
| 25 | She could feel his light-weapon burning off her skin , charring her bones , slinging her on to some meat-heap to be reassembled from scrap . |
| 26 | I shall place a few grains of corn on her head and allow the hen to peck them off her scalp for a minute or two . |
| 27 | Filden I did arrive alongside the jetty at Margate to be met by our Investigation officers , with Venturous close behind to cut off her retreat . |
| 28 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 29 | Then she remembered someone taking off her nightgown , and a brisk woman in a white starched uniform saying something about going into the theatre — and she saw the doctor again , talking earnestly to a man in a long white gown who was pulling on a pair of rubber gloves … . |
| 30 | She dashed off her orange juice , and stood up . |