Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] she off " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose you 're so besotted with Dawn that you 're afraid to tell her off . ’ |
| 2 | It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements — and perhaps unwise . |
| 3 | ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater . |
| 4 | Leonora was heartily glad to wave her off to her party . |
| 5 | Polly took his laconic retort to mean that the police and Customs officers would be glad to have her off their hands . |
| 6 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 7 | He thought that if Miss McAllister was not serious that would be sure to put her off . |
| 8 | Confronted in his domestic environment , he would find it more difficult to fob her off . |
| 9 | ‘ Show me your ankle , ’ the tall Czechoslovakian chopped her off . |
| 10 | The astrologer had been right to warn her off , had been right that his heart was tied up elsewhere . |