Example sentences of "[be] try [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | I squirm like I 'm trying to shake off a mosquito . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not pregnant , nor do I suffer from anorexia , ’ she added frostily , ‘ I 'm trying to shake off an illness I 've had for a few months , that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Down in division 3 , Hereford United are trying to shake off a run of 3 league defeats in a row . |
| 5 | ‘ Their motivation is suspect and there is a concern that they are trying to buy off nationalist community support and in particular support for Sinn Féin in the West of the city ’ . |
| 6 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 7 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 8 | Sometimes the horse stretches out its neck at the horse it is trying to warn off and tosses its head up and down at it in a threatening manner . |
| 9 | Unix International is trying to head off further fragmentation in the industry by acting as peacemaker between the new desktop rivals SunSoft Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc , anticipating some compatibility issues before the mud-slinging turns nasty . |
| 10 | The Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester is trying to shake off its persistent image of being just too highbrow for words and it is striving to show the general public that they might actually enjoy some of the things that go on there . |
| 11 | Spend two days in tour fatigues with this new , arena-compatible Nirvana production machine — ‘ I do n't know the names of most of the crew , ’ admits Dave — and it dawns on you that the overriding issue here is not that Kurt Cobain is on heroin ( or is n't , or was , or is and is trying to get off ) but that his wife is a Grade A pain in the arse . |
| 12 | Dick does n't follow him in fact he thinks the bloke is trying to get off with him which is a bit of a laugh if you 've seen the Indian women , until the Indian runs off and fetches Miguel who 's one of the guides . |
| 13 | She found herself next to Petion , who was trying to pick off men on the nearest freighter . |
| 14 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 15 | They were n't doing anything — they were just being polite — but Nigel was slightly afraid that the artist was trying to get off with Eleanor . |
| 16 | Especially when he was trying to get off with her . |
| 17 | Even if he was trying to show off , I still respected him . ’ |
| 18 | She observed the way his foot twitched under the table with strange flicks , as though he was trying to shake off something stuck to the sole of his shoe . |
| 19 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 20 | I was trying to fend off Wayne and Louise , playing Rambo with my knees . |
| 21 | Former England opener Geoff Boycott chased and caught a thief who was trying to make off with his golf clubs and a holdall at King 's Cross station in London recently . |