Example sentences of "[to-vb] off the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To shake off the mood of secrecy , he took her out . |
| 2 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 3 | Indeed the so-called ‘ Revolution Bill ’ , the Umsturzvorlage proposed by the German government in 1894 to ward off the threat of revolution , made criticism of the family as an institution punishable by drastic penalties . |
| 4 | Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies , who were offering high-interest accounts . |
| 5 | Gould probably never imagined that his meeting with Darwin would be one of the most significant events in scientific history ; that what he was to uncover in Darwin 's bag of birds was to spark off the theory of evolution . |
| 6 | At these levels , borrowers with savings or investments must be wondering whether it is worthwhile using some of their cash to pay off the mortgage in part or in full . |
| 7 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |