Example sentences of "she [verb] it off " in BNC.
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1 | She passed it off as a joke , furious that she had given herself away . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | She shooed it off , vindictively giving it an urge to become a great landscape painter in place of its rope obsession . |
4 | Will she carry it off ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Her voice rose , he put his hand on her arm but she shook it off . |
7 | He grabbed her arm as she tried to run past him , but she shook it off and spun in the opposite direction . |
8 | For one startled moment she felt the shock , then resolutely she shook it off . |
9 | Frowning , she turned it off . |
10 | She turned it off and put on a tape of Stravinsky . |
11 | Remembering that all fresh water had to be stored on board , she turned it off while she soaped herself . |
12 | She shows it off with a giggle . |
13 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
14 | She cut it off . |
15 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
16 | Something put his hand on Anne 's bottom , but did not seem to mind too much when she peeled it off and gave it back to him . |
17 | Well , it was n't about anything , except did she have it off or did n't she ? |
18 | Constanza found him uncouth and a bore — that was one of the things being with Simon did to one — she broke it off and went to parties again . |
19 | She had tied her hair back with a pale blue ribbon , to match the cool , summery blue dress , and she pulled it off , shaking her long hair free . |
20 | yeah , how can you joined to the machine how come she pulled it off so quickly ? |
21 | She switched it off and squatted beside the kegs to read the labels . |
22 | She switched it off then clambered over the fence , landing nimbly on her toes , and walked down another alley which brought her out onto Madison Avenue . |
23 | Then , with a careless gesture , she switched it off . |
24 | Her torch flickered across the wall and she switched it off , holding her breath in case someone had noticed the distant gleam of light . |
25 | She dusted it off and then rather timidly mounted it . |
26 | While he was in the dressing-room , she took it off , placing her silk wrap round her shoulders . |
27 | She took it off and carefully put it under the boy 's leg . |
28 | One shoe seemed to be wetter than the other and the strap was working loose , so , leaning against the ledge of the shop window , she took it off to have a look at it . |
29 | She took it off again . |
30 | He nodded his satisfaction and let go , and she wrenched it off and took a deep breath . |