Example sentences of "[to-vb] off a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next it was Nixon 's turn in the Tranmere goal to pull off a spectacular save from Mitchell . |
| 2 | The two counties met in last year 's Ulster final at Armagh and in one of the best games seen in the province all year Tyrone came from behind in the second half to pull off a memorable victory after having been reduced to fourteen players . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Francois Boutin 's bid to pull off a clean sweep of the French Classics rests with Accommodating in the French Oaks at Chantilly on Sunday . |
| 4 | Barker grew very quickly , and had to work off a tremendous amount of energy every day , and since Danny was much too young to take him out for walks , this duty fell upon Connor . |
| 5 | Before leaving for church , it was a ritual to drink a cup of tea which was supposed to ward off a fainting attack during the service . |
| 6 | The distribution was apparently hampered by strict curfew regulations , imposed in the occupied territories as a security measure since the morning of Jan. 16 in view of the level of popular support for Saddam Hussein and to ward off a fresh upsurge in the Palestinian intifada . |
| 7 | In fact , we are at the New Athenaeum Theatre at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where New Moves is presenting the Vicente Saez company from Spain , the first of three European groups to round off a superb season of dance . |
| 8 | Omnipotent in Dublin , the Republic have the players — Whelan , Houghton , Aldridge , Cascarino , Sheedy , O'Leary — to see off a large part of the opposition in Italy . |
| 9 | The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I , one of Britain 's largest engineering firms . |
| 10 | Many of these techniques culminate in your being able to trigger off a general sense of relaxation when it suits you . |
| 11 | It makes economic sense , particularly if the prospectus is printed commercially , to run off a substantial number at one time . |
| 12 | Since two different groups of headlines appear in E [ the last sheet but three ] it is obvious that an interruption occurred while E was printing ; and it appears probable that it came about because the printer abruptly decided to run off a small number of complete copies of the book for sale while the opera was being presented and then to finish the entire edition at leisure . |
| 13 | It also has an ‘ enable tracer ’ which cuts down the time needed to run off a large number of copies from one disc . |
| 14 | It also faces increased interest costs on its debt unless it improves its balance sheet in time to stave off a threatened downgrading of its debt by the Moody 's credit rating agency . |
| 15 | The result of these efforts to stiffen Orthodoxy 's moral fibre , however , was to spark off a disastrous schism within the Church . |
| 16 | Her toughest assignment turned out to be the anchor-leg of the intermediate girls relay , when she had to put in a spurt to hold off a determined challenge from Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | Almost every woman I 've known had to live off a perpetual menu of rabbit 's food . |
| 18 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 19 | A number of the larger British builders of production yachts were also keen to bite off a worthwhile piece of the market . |
| 20 | The Star takes a similar line : Smith ‘ tore up the party 's election manifesto ’ , but ‘ he was set to touch off a left-wing backlash by hijacking Tory policies . ’ |
| 21 | The gallery has its lighter side to arouse the interests of children — the ‘ smellerama ’ to test their sense of smell and relate it to certain types of food , the ‘ food pyramid ’ to test their ability to build a healthy diet , and an ‘ aerobicycle ’ which will demonstrate the amount of exertion required to burn off a given number of calories . |
| 22 | The suit is meant to head off a legal attack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works , see page four . |
| 23 | The suit is meant to head off a legal attack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works . |
| 24 | JOHN Major will move today to head off a threatened mutiny by the Tory Right to sink his premiership . |
| 25 | THE Government was forced to make an embarrassing about-turn over the Maastricht bill yesterday to head off a damaging defeat at the hands of an alliance of Tory Euro-rebels and opposition parties . |
| 26 | Suppose that the government , guided by these false prophets , decides that it is prepared to trade off a positive rate of inflation for a lower unemployment rate . |
| 27 | But Pompey have not had to fend off a serious inquiry about him for two years . |
| 28 | By contrast , the position ultimately reached in the English cases is that if the primary reason for issuing new shares is to fend off a potential bidder for the company then the decision of the directors will be one that the courts can overturn even if the directors are acting bona fide in the best interests of the company . |