Example sentences of "her [noun] and [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Poor old Corbett , ’ said Septimus Coffin , as Penny shoved the books into her briefcase and made off down the drive . |
| 2 | Realising that there was more snow on the way , she clenched her teeth and set off for the moors . |
| 3 | Just grabbed her handbag and ran off with it . |
| 4 | Loretta got back into her car and drove off towards Oxford . |
| 5 | There was time only to grab a piece of burnt toast before jumping into her car and setting off for London . |
| 6 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 7 | She might as well cut her losses and take off for Phobos or Longevity , see if there was anything there , see if there was anyone that had n't flown down for carnival . |
| 8 | An hour later , she climbed into her Panda and set off for Oxford . |
| 9 | It sprang down off her lap and prowled off through a flower bed . |
| 10 | She combed her hair , applied her make-up and set off for the Post Office . |
| 11 | Jezrael lurched stiffly to her feet and lumbered off at a run . |
| 12 | Dorothea did not even mind when she lost her grip and wandered off down the avenues of the past , for sometimes she could accompany her , at any rate part of the way , and |
| 13 | He dropped a light kiss on her cheek and strode off across the empty square . |
| 14 | She turned to her right and set off for home , all thought and feeling evacuated along with her energy and her sweat , in touch only with the irregular paving-stones , the light-rays interrupting the pink-grey clouds , the number-plates of cars , the lines on the faces that passed her , the name of the day , its date . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Phoebe had taken a shower , found some clean knickers , mounted her bicycle and ridden off to her appointment at the clinic . |
| 16 | She then kneads it with her mandibles and front legs into a soft pellet about half the size of her head and flies off with it to her building site . |
| 17 | Then she yawned , blinked , turned her back and walked off into the house . |
| 18 | Then she put on a white crash helmet , climbed into her kart and roared off at the Playscape circuit in Clapham , South London . |
| 19 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 20 | She had a private word with Iain in the after cabin , then put her anorak on over her dress and went off to bed , escorted by Captain Freddie . |
| 21 | In terror , she lifted her skirts and ran off into the village , proclaiming loudly that ‘ the diel ’ was in Alloway kirk . |
| 22 | Soon Yvonne will be packing her bags and jetting off to Greece for a holiday in the sun . |
| 23 | She lifted her hand and ticked off on her fingers . |
| 24 | She could n't eat any of her meal and went off to school where she had to sit alongside Mr Clark 's daughter . |
| 25 | Very pleased , Cheryl bade her goodbye and tripped off to the bus-stop , collecting Mrs. Yatton 's shoes on the way . |
| 26 | They stood and watched the nun spin on her heel and waddle off with as much dignity as she could muster . |
| 27 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |