Example sentences of "she [vb past] off [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 3 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
| 4 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 5 | She stalked off into the house . |
| 6 | Taking care not to swing the basket , she got off outside the gate of St Michael-in-the-Moor and walked across the green . |
| 7 | At the end she turned off to the right and there was I with nothing to look at . |
| 8 | Like a hare , she raced off down the ride . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And so they merely shook hands , and she walked off down the garden path to her door . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ sobbed Perdita , and , leaping on to Hermia 's back , she clattered off down the drive . |
| 12 | When her legs had stopped shaking sufficiently , she started off down the path again . |
| 13 | It is too long since I went to church — ’ she broke off as the coffee and cream cakes arrived . |
| 14 | Without waiting for an answer , she dashed off along the street and after the rapidly departing Harry . |
| 15 | Immediately after lunch , she dashed off to the kitchen and found one of the Trunchbull 's famous jugs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps she drifted off in the bath . |
| 18 | She went off into the kitchen . |
| 19 | Ashley nodded , and , as she went off into the kitchen , Vitor took the little boy to collect his present . |
| 20 | And with that she went off to the shop to collect the miserable amount of provisions that were due . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He insisted on walking her home but she ran off at the corner . |
| 24 | She ran off with the silver . |
| 25 | When Julie saw her coming she ran off over the road . |
| 26 | She lurched off across the room , reaching for the wall to steady herself , and disappeared upstairs . |
| 27 | She was aware that he stood watching her as she set off towards the exit . |
| 28 | She set off towards the junction to the left . |
| 29 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 30 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |