Example sentences of "she [verb] off [prep] the [noun] " 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 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
4 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
5 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
6 | She stalked off into the house . |
7 | Taking care not to swing the basket , she got off outside the gate of St Michael-in-the-Moor and walked across the green . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | At the end she turned off to the right and there was I with nothing to look at . |
11 | Like a hare , she raced off down the ride . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Should she set off down the hill to meet him ? |
14 | And so they merely shook hands , and she walked off down the garden path to her door . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ sobbed Perdita , and , leaping on to Hermia 's back , she clattered off down the drive . |
17 | When her legs had stopped shaking sufficiently , she started off down the path again . |
18 | It is too long since I went to church — ’ she broke off as the coffee and cream cakes arrived . |
19 | Without waiting for an answer , she dashed off along the street and after the rapidly departing Harry . |
20 | Immediately after lunch , she dashed off to the kitchen and found one of the Trunchbull 's famous jugs . |
21 | She wanders off to the studio , erm , a room in a house , her mum and dad 's house , to answer the phone . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Perhaps she drifted off in the bath . |
24 | She went off into the kitchen . |
25 | Ashley nodded , and , as she went off into the kitchen , Vitor took the little boy to collect his present . |
26 | And with that she went off to the shop to collect the miserable amount of provisions that were due . |
27 | And with these words she thumped off down the stairs , leaving me to collect my thoughts for the hard task of Testifying . |
28 | So saying , she marched off down the gravel path , making the kind of crunching noise Robert had thought could only be produced by the BBC sound-effects department . |
29 | Then she knuckled off to the back of the cage and Fifi followed , her eyes fixed on the banana although she was n't trying to snatch . |
30 | He insisted on walking her home but she ran off at the corner . |