Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] off [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In truth , Diana got on rather well with Adeane , who introduced her to many of the women she accepted as her ladies-in-waiting while she was an enthusiastic matchmaker , continually trying to pair off the difficult bachelor with unattached ladies . |
| 2 | He walked away quickly , trying to shake off the unnerving effect of the encounter . |
| 3 | Even now British American Tobacco is desperately trying to fight off the predatory raid of James Goldsmith , Rothschild et al . |
| 4 | She hesitated , but Guy did n't turn round , and she retreated inside the spare room and pushed the door slowly closed behind her , trying to fight off the dreadful sense of anti-climax . |
| 5 | This was probably due either to farmers intending to hand on their asset and therefore not thinking of it as one or to younger men trying to pay off a large loan ( they also did not want to think about it ! ) . |
| 6 | Either way , the meaty hunk of French boeuf , who we rate as the screen 's answer to Ian Botham , seems considerably ill at ease as a father trying to fend off the local romeos from his daughter while holidaying on the enchanted island . |
| 7 | Oh , the problems of trying to show off a bold front . |