Example sentences of "her [noun] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This May-brick woman who finished her hubby off with fly-papers . |
| 2 | On Thursday , her half-day off from the shop , as Rachaela was sitting in her chair listening to Tchaikovsky ballet music , the door sounded . |
| 3 | Wiping her fingers off on her trousers , she told him , ‘ you did n't have to die . |
| 4 | That would take her mind off of everything — including Julius , and the fact that he was going to spend the day working closely with Eleanor . |
| 5 | No sketcher nor painter nor artist wanted to see the elastic weals on a model 's shoulders and chest and hips and thighs , every model left her underwear off for as many hours as possible before posing . |
| 6 | Ilse slipped her pinafore off with a smile . |
| 7 | At the adjacent table , a loud , powdered woman in a cyclamen hat slipped her shoes off under the table . |
| 8 | Kicking her shoes off in her hotel bedroom , hanging up her Chanel suit , removing her earrings , she could n't help feeling glad — sorry though she undoubtedly was , of course — that poor Felicity had been laid low with the chicken-pox . |
| 9 | She had to cut her stockings off with nail scissors , and the fishnet pattern was stamped in red on her swollen knee . |
| 10 | Kirk finds God in the slightly rubbish STAR TREK V : THE FINAL FRONTIER and Jane Fonda gets her kit off for the evil Duran Duran in groovy pop-art romp BARBARELLA . |
| 11 | After they 'd finished their lunch Valerie Stevens took her husband off across the field to where a little knot of donkeys were assembling to take part in the donkey derby , an important annual event at the OBEX Family Day . |
| 12 | She had the audience in her palm and the quality of her character off to a fine art . |
| 13 | The bounce was now back in Jenny 's step , I noticed , as I watched her head off towards the tube . |
| 14 | She is aware of ‘ something lovely somewhere , something that is gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained ’ , but why this urge to scream her head off at the sight of an uncleared breakfast table ? |
| 15 | He threw her down , dragged her along by her hair , cut her head off on the block , and hewed her in pieces . |
| 16 | Babur also understands the mild-mannered little men who tolerate their wives ' infidelities for twenty years and then one day they simply leap across the room and strangle her and saw her head off with the breadknife and put her bit by bit down the rubbish disposal , serves the fucking slut right , the sloppy slag trollop . |
| 17 | Robbie went to see her friend off at the station , and that was when Caro had mentioned , oh , so casually , that she did not actually live alone . |
| 18 | When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief . |
| 19 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 20 | IT 'S been a long time since Sister Jacques-Marie took her clothes off for public viewing . |
| 21 | But what woman could have lured Angela Brickell and persuaded her to take all her clothes off in the middle of a wood ? ’ |
| 22 | Her assistant , standing at her elbow with a query , brought her away from such thoughts ; and sent her thoughts off down another avenue . |
| 23 | But just now she thought she would willingly endure any punishment if only she dared take her hat off without making it perfectly obvious she was making a pass at him . |
| 24 | And so Fenella said , ‘ I wish you a safe journey , ’ and was pleased that her voice came out firm and perfectly calm , as if she was quite accustomed to seeing her brother off on a journey to the Court of a Sorceress , which would take him past all manner of weird and darkly enchanted places . |
| 25 | But when her company refused her time off for a quick photo shoot , Yasmin energised herself by picking up her coat and walking out . |
| 26 | Getting her jeans off in two seconds flat in a stable was not what he had visualized for her . |