Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [pers pn] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | When had her name up for detention she goes rub it off ! |
| 2 | She goes rub it off . |
| 3 | ‘ Has she intimated she wants to break it off ? ’ said Francis . |
| 4 | ‘ She wants to marry me off to you , ’ he said , ‘ and she 's in love with me ? |
| 5 | She said she tried to push him off , but he was too forceful . |
| 6 | ‘ Which means that Roger Kenyon 's in the plot against us , whatever it may be , ’ Susan said , and then , with a shrug , she tried to laugh it off . |
| 7 | She tried to shrug it off . |
| 8 | With a strangled gasp of fury she tried to pull it off , but he held both her hands , preventing her . |
| 9 | With a massive effort she tried to fight him off , but he had locked his hands behind her neck , and all her efforts to squirm out of his grasp were useless . |
| 10 | She tried to shake it off . |
| 11 | She tried to fob him off tactfully at first , but then he became brutal . |
| 12 | ‘ She has turned me off , I tell you . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd shaken them off . |
| 14 | She 'd learnt it off by heart but knew she must n't say anything out loud ! |
| 15 | But she 'd got it off though had n't she ? |
| 16 | Anita was small and blonde and full of life ; she seemed to hit it off with Lizzy straight away . |
| 17 | So is she going to drop them off there earlier ? |
| 18 | As she began to tick them off , a manservant rushed up with a magnum of champagne . |
| 19 | She started to brush it off , then realised she was looking at a battered Ten Pound note . |
| 20 | She managed to pull them off but as she drove down the street she was followed by a cacophony of tin cans tied to the bumper . |
| 21 | She went to shrug it off . |
| 22 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 23 | They rang room service , then she had to push him off like a young puppy . |
| 24 | She had put on one of Alice 's brassières under the dress she had lent her , but it looked odd , so she had to take it off . |
| 25 | But this Subject had n't lost him by accident : she had brushed him off within minutes in less than a quarter-mile of straight well-lit street . |
| 26 | Mattie had wanted to put a shawl over her shoulders , but she had shrugged it off and demanded to be left alone . |
| 27 | He had taken her arm and she had thrust him off . |
| 28 | It was nearly a week now since she had sent it off . |
| 29 | She had passed it off at the time , saying , ‘ That 's right , Sarah ! |
| 30 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |