Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | After exchanging a few words with him , she led him off into a corner . |
| 2 | He tried to strangle her , but she fought him off . ’ |
| 3 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 4 | Laughing , she fought him off till he 'd got the dress off her by brute force , and wooed her consent with practised skill . |
| 5 | She fought him off and he fled . |
| 6 | Police are hunting a sex attacker who left a young woman scratched and bleeding after she fought him off . |
| 7 | Spreading the oilskins out on the floor , she wiped them off , finishing the process with the towel Nathan had tossed on to the worktop . |
| 8 | She passed it off as a joke , furious that she had given herself away . |
| 9 | Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat . |
| 10 | She began to run again , down towards it , jumping from tussock to tussock , and then her hat came loose and she snatched it off , scattering pins as she did so , and ran on , holding it in her hand and every so often bowling it ahead of her like a hoop . |
| 11 | She dried her off well and said , ‘ She ca n't have two washes ’ . |
| 12 | She shooed it off , vindictively giving it an urge to become a great landscape painter in place of its rope obsession . |
| 13 | She told me off . |
| 14 | And I missed that in the seventies and eighties , and my wife said you know you 're mad , towards the late eighties she told me off , she said you 're mad , you 'll spend your life looking for something that you 've already got , for god 's sake just concentrate on what you r are , you 're an actor , do that , perform . |
| 15 | She told me off for doing the wrong colour there . |
| 16 | You think you no a colour until you try the er , and the one I actually picked out when she measured it off , she 'd only got three yards and I needed four and a half . |
| 17 | For one terrifying moment she thought he was going to subdue her again but she threw him off with a shove . |
| 18 | so she went straight downstairs ay she ripped me off so she said I 'm ever so sorry Ann . |
| 19 | When the wiry little creatures obstructed her again , she hauled them off their feet . |
| 20 | But as Clyde touched her arm at the elbow , a gesture both proprietorial and questioning , she shook him off with a mouthful of venomous obscenities . |
| 21 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 22 | But in that , he was disappointed : she shook him off and moved away . |
| 23 | She shook him off . |
| 24 | Greg Carey was there near the door , and when he reached out to grab her arm , asking , ‘ What 's going on ? ’ she shook him off impatiently and did n't even see his face close and tighten in anger at her second rejection of the evening . |
| 25 | She shook him off . |
| 26 | Her voice rose , he put his hand on her arm but she shook it off . |
| 27 | He grabbed her arm as she tried to run past him , but she shook it off and spun in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | For one startled moment she felt the shock , then resolutely she shook it off . |
| 29 | Frowning , she turned it off . |
| 30 | She turned it off and put on a tape of Stravinsky . |