Example sentences of "[to-vb] off [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other companies quickly moved to siphon off a share of the new business . |
| 2 | ITV … here 's a big welcome back , to an old favourite Perfect Scoundrels , starring Peter Bowles and Bryan Murray as two con artists never quite able to pull off a dodge deal . |
| 3 | Since taking over as Brazil 's manager on 6 January , Sebastiano Lazaroni has attempted to pull off a transformation that has hitherto seemed impossible in Brazilian football . |
| 4 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
| 5 | A professional golfer tries to pull off a confidence trick against his own body . |
| 6 | Stockton South MP Tim Devlin says a new winter storage site may have been found for families being forced to pull off a site at Stockton by April 1 . |
| 7 | Mathers twisted his head to pull off the bite he 'd taken ; he chewed for a while . |
| 8 | He carried on past and found a place to pull off the road , and then he collected together his flashlight and a roll of tools and set off to walk the short distance back . |
| 9 | This section of land lies between the canal and the River Tame and leads along to the A5127 northeast-bound where there might be room for a vehicle to pull off the road into the gateway to load up beneath the M6 . |
| 10 | Back in the surgery Sophie found Joanna giving the squirrel some milk and saw to her relief that he had not tried to pull off the dressing . |
| 11 | But Beaumont is already confident that the eight-year-old will make a bold bid to pull off the feat in 12 months ' time . |
| 12 | By 1977 the family had accumulated enough capital , acumen and experience to pull off the property deal of the century : the purchase for $120m of eight Manhattan skyscrapers when the city of New York was on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm also trying to shake off a cold which I picked up in Belgium . ’ |
| 14 | The striker is anxious to shake off a thigh strain and said : ‘ I trained today , and I shall see how it reacts . |
| 15 | I squirm like I 'm trying to shake off a mosquito . |
| 16 | Down in division 3 , Hereford United are trying to shake off a run of 3 league defeats in a row . |
| 17 | Bruce Grobbelaar is still fighting to shake off a hamstring strain in time for tomorrow 's Anfield clash with Middlesbrough , but manager Graeme Souness could be tempted to continue with Mike Hooper , who impressed against Spartak . |
| 18 | The prospect conjures up magic memories of the vintage clashes featuring Jimmy Greaves and George Best , but £2 million Anderton is still battling to shake off a stomach strain . |
| 19 | But he has now lost four central defenders in Wright , Pallister , Curle and Parker , while Leeds 's Tony Dorigo is struggling to shake off a knee problem . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 22 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 23 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 24 | He made an irritable gesture of flapping his cloak to shake off the water . |
| 25 | ALAN SHEARER looks certain to shake off the leg injury that cut short his two-goal display against Leeds on Boxing Day . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Premier League leading scorer Alan Shearer looks certain to shake off the leg injury that cut short his two-goal display against Leeds on Boxing Day in time for Blackburn 's visist to Ipswich today . |
| 27 | But in contrast to the sturdy independence of the encircling nations , many of the island-groups within have still to shake off the mastery of foreign powers , and remain in subjugation . |
| 28 | To shake off the mood of secrecy , he took her out . |
| 29 | Only through such an accidental , miraculous chance could anyone expect to shake off the yoke of grimly limited prospects . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |