Example sentences of "fight off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Stirling , Mr Michael Forsyth , the Scottish health and education minister and the foremost disciple of Thatcherism in Scotland , fought off the challenge to his wafer-thin majority of 548 to increase fractionally his majority to 703 . |
| 2 | His commercial pride badly wounded , Mercer fought off the criticism , but had to endure a harsh winter watching his team struggle in the knowledge that it would be many years before he could contemplate the fire-side warmth of his own undersoil heating . |
| 3 | Shoulder to shoulder with the bankers of the City of London , Snowden fought off the attack on economic internationalism , while , with the Cabinet refusing to follow through the full deflationary logic of the Treasury approach to the slump , Britain drifted into financial crisis . |
| 4 | Following the same victory route as his full brother Morley Street two years ago , Granville Again fought off the challenge from 50–1 shot Royal Derbi to win by a length . |
| 5 | Babysitter Nicola Wilkinson , 13 , fought off the phoney as she tried to grab one-year-old Kristian Watson in Spennymoor , County Durham . |
| 6 | ‘ You fought off the effects of the anaesthetic faster than my medical orderly thought possible . ’ |
| 7 | After he had eaten he lit a small oil lamp to dispel the gathering gloom , and by its light fought off the silence by indulging in some desultory tidying , which consisted of gathering together assorted scrolls of papyrus and articles of clothing scattered about , and dumping them into two chests — one for each . |
| 8 | I fought off the duvet and padded to the door , grabbing a towel from the bathroom to wrap around my waist and avoiding a cunning ankle-tap trip-and-throw move from Springsteen . |
| 9 | In 1685 , in time of peace , a Spanish fleet was forced to salute a French one after fighting which involved considerable casualties ; and in 1688 French and Dutch squadrons fought off the Spanish coast , again in time of peace , over the same issue . |
| 10 | Lindsey fought off the realisation that she should be doing the same , a tiny spark of rebellion taking her , instead of to her cabin , to the gallery of luxurious and well-stocked shops and boutiques , carrying everything from souvenirs and jewellery , famous brands of perfume and toiletries to designer shoes and clothes . |
| 11 | Following the same victory route as his full brother , Morley Street , two years ago , Granville Again fought off the challenge from 50-1 shot Royal Derbi to win by a length . |
| 12 | His mind fought off the idea furiously , and yet it came back to fret his certainty again . |
| 13 | If it does end up in the museum however , Blakeslee said that the co-operation of advanced design , advanced engineering and production engineering departments on the Activa II will pave the way for more efficient Japanese-style simultaneous engineering to fight off the Orientals , whenever Monsieur Calvet allows them to arrive . |
| 14 | It had been impossible to stop my body from charging but now it was impossible to fight off the fatigue . |
| 15 | ‘ All three put up a struggle to fight off the attacker . |
| 16 | A number of artists attempt to fight off the challenge of this abrasive colour , not unsuccessfully . |
| 17 | Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies , who were offering high-interest accounts . |
| 18 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 19 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 20 | Prepare a budget recommendation together with the broad media strategy you would adopt to fight off the competition . |
| 21 | Even now British American Tobacco is desperately trying to fight off the predatory raid of James Goldsmith , Rothschild et al . |
| 22 | The Iraqis , once they had withdrawn from the territory occupied in the early months , and to some extent even before this took place , constructed solid defensive positions , notably in the centre near Mandali and Khanaqin , and in the south close to Basrah , from which to fight off the anticipated Iranian offensives . |
| 23 | Working flat out during the day , and immersed in reams of paperwork during the night , Ross had been totally absorbed in his battle to fight off the sharks who were attacking his financial empire . |
| 24 | Did you manage to fight off the sharks ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Terry managed to fight off the man ; if he had n't , he reckons he would n't be alive today . |
| 27 | Sir John Mogg , the 80 year old former deputy supreme allied commander in Europe tried to fight off the robbers who invaded his Watlington home armed with a knife . |
| 28 | In Nicosia 's Eoka museum , pictures of British troops when they tried to fight off the separatists . |
| 29 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 30 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |