Example sentences of "[to-vb] off [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxton just failed to pull off victory at Hightown on a rain affected wicket . |
| 2 | The best way to shake off winter lethargy is with a good , long , top-to-toe stretch . |
| 3 | He found the teenage years confusing — college would at least provide a different background , new faces , fresh distractions and , eventually , the chance to shake off ghetto restrictions , to escape . |
| 4 | I pledge to write to my bank manager urging the banks to write off debt owed by poorer countries . |
| 5 | Like Camdessus , Conable urged creditor nations to write off debt to the poorest nations [ see also p. 37731 for LDC conference in Paris ] and claimed that a 10 per cent cut in military spending by members of NATO would free enough resources to double development assistance . |
| 6 | Country that is too dry for tropical forest but has enough rain to ward off desert contains scattered trees in a setting that is primarily grassland . |
| 7 | Either he had perfected the performance over the years to ward off sympathy from the able-bodied , or he was hiding something far worse than a self-destructive youth . |
| 8 | It says other programs run , but the company will have to ward off criticism that it does not have a significant inventory of tested packages . |
| 9 | It says other programs run , but the company will have to ward off criticism that it does not have a significant inventory of tested packages . |
| 10 | In other words , the implicit justification is a rationalization , existing to ward off criticism . |
| 11 | Typically , it consists in an attempt to ward off criticism or some other kind of attack on the part of an authority figure by means of exchanging subject for object and thus putting the recipient of the attack in the place of the attacker . |
| 12 | Everything you do when you live alone should be part of a plan to ward off depression . |
| 13 | Thus I deceived her into thinking that she had scared me , and that I would take the necessary steps to ward off fatality . |
| 14 | Her younger brother , Basil , in his final year of Modern Greats at Oxford , spoke of going into the City when he graduated , but Robyn considered this was just talk , designed to ward off hubris about this forthcoming examinations , or an Oedipal teasing of his academic father . |
| 15 | Little by little , the overprotective zeal and care of a fearful mother was translated in the infant 's psyche as the need to ward off death , an ever-present possibility on the horizon of life . |
| 16 | The major parties in Congress in August submitted a series of specific measures to then President José Sarney designed to cut spending and to stabilize the economy in order to ward off hyperinflation . |
| 17 | They may include destruction of parents ' belongings , stealing money to buy friendship , truanting to avoid failure at school , ‘ heart-broken ’ sobbing to ward off punishment , snatching toys from other children , telling lies to avoid punishment . |
| 18 | God was there and there seemed no need to pray or sing hymns either to transport me away from the present reality or to ward off danger by attracting God 's attention . |
| 19 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 20 | The extras huddled in coats between takes and were served frequent meals of chilli con carne , curry and chips to ward off hypothermia . |
| 21 | Exercise improves immunization in the body 's constant fight to ward off disease . |
| 22 | He distributes dollar bills to his supporters and these notes are kept as talismans to ward off evil . |
| 23 | It was also carved on to a number of the walls , as if to ward off Evil . |
| 24 | A little gift shop ( there 's a Chinese supermarket too ) sells effigies of Chinese high priests ‘ to ward off evil , ’ says the ticket . |
| 25 | How easy it is to set off speculation . |
| 26 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 27 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 28 | EDINBURGH Gulf Monarchs have moved to kill off speculation that their two top riders , Les Collins and Kenny McKinna , would not be in their line-up in the new season . |
| 29 | Distraught , Uderzo resolved never to draw again , to kill off Asterix . |
| 30 | ‘ Two years ago , the media conspired to kill off acid , ’ say Ubik . |