Example sentences of "[to-vb] off a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | And , the court was told , the caper was just like the film Best of Friends in which Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster play two old lags who decide to pull off a final robbery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is tempting to lop off a discreet year or so but be careful with other dates ; will they believe you took your degree at 15 ? |
| 10 | In almost a quarter of an hour , an incredibly short time for an encounter battle , it was all over , and , to round off a crushing defeat Cope 's baggage train , including his money chest containing £4000 , was captured without a fight . |
| 11 | Finally Cadette stepped in with two goals to round off a marvellous display . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Molly and Mary both had things to do that evening , so Yanto had arranged to meet Billy in the Boar to round off a good weekend . |
| 14 | Leaning back in a creaky old chair in a Padstow café , faced with yet another cream tea was the perfect way to round off a fabulous week 's backpacking on part of the South West Coast Path . |
| 15 | Roared on by considerable vocal support , Matt Cook took his goal tally to eight with two more goals , and then set up Becky Ashdown to round off a 3–0 win . |
| 16 | He helps his twin brother to carry off a young peasant girl from among his tenantry , her husband having first been killed by being deliberately overworked in unhealthy conditions . |
| 17 | As for clothes , fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To fight off a deep depression , he concentrated his thoughts on the larger picture , telling his wife at the end of September that " the " " Battle of Britain " " is now won … |
| 20 | The Abingdon-based Morland brewers will know tomorrow if they 've managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid . |
| 21 | One of the region 's independent breweries has managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid — at least for the time being . |
| 22 | The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I , one of Britain 's largest engineering firms . |
| 23 | Barrow was a White Knight — headhunted to fight off a corporate raider — for whom Kennecott had to pay over $1m. in order to match a clause in Barrow 's contract with Exxon which allowed him bonuses in line with the rising price of the company 's stock . |
| 24 | THE schools team needed to call on all their experience to fight off a spirited challenge the youth side at Templeville Road where they won 32–7 . |
| 25 | She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault . |
| 26 | Many of these techniques culminate in your being able to trigger off a general sense of relaxation when it suits you . |
| 27 | It makes economic sense , particularly if the prospectus is printed commercially , to run off a substantial number at one time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One way of dealing with these problems is to run off a standard pro-forma , to fill in the blank spaces and send them off to parents . |
| 30 | It also has an ‘ enable tracer ’ which cuts down the time needed to run off a large number of copies from one disc . |