Example sentences of "she [vb past] off [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 2 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |
| 3 | She broke off as a man 's voice called from the staircase : ‘ What 's all this dam ’ talking ? |
| 4 | I could still read the name of the English toffee manufacturer on the lid which she prised off with a knife . |
| 5 | In fact , she went off to a jazz club with other musician friends that very evening , to drown her sorrows , and met your father , who was playing in the band . ’ |
| 6 | Ricky has left , she went off with a bloke ten years younger than her |
| 7 | She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’ |
| 8 | And then and then like you know and then she went off in a mood cos I cos I go to let's me sit opposite you like hinting like oh I do n't want to sit there . |
| 9 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |