Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All three put up a struggle to fight off the attacker . |
| 2 | As David Carlton has written , this plan ‘ represented a willingness to buy off a bully with territory to which he had no legitimate claim . ’ |
| 3 | That certainly would fit very well with the familiar notion of a writer shaking off the anguished preoccupations of childhood and adolescence , free now in his maturity to put ironic distance between himself and that world , but it wo n't do . |
| 4 | A motorway workman was killed when a wheel flew off a lorry and hit him . |
| 5 | Yesterday a wheel flew off a lorry and hit a car . |
| 6 | The prospect of a coalition government led by the Japan Socialist Party ( JSP ) resulted in increased financial support and funding for the LDP from the business community , the Economist of Dec. 23 , 1989 , reported that , in a bid to ward off a possible LDP defeat , 13 national and commercial banks had provided US$104,000,000 in emergency finance to the LDP 's electoral campaign funds , repayable at 1 per cent over the prime rate . |
| 7 | But the agreement has been interpreted here as a bid to stave off a likely request that Peru leave the Fund because of its violation of the rules . |
| 8 | Boys and girls , And women that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect 's leg , all read of war The best amusement of our morning meal ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A SKINHEAD bit off a man 's ear and spat it out on a pub floor after the victim criticised his pitbull terrier . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In McHugh ( 1989 ) 88 Cr App R 385 ( CA ) , the accused used money of a company of which he was a director to pay off the debts of subsidiary companies , of which he was also a director . |
| 14 | Take a meter reading off an area of grassland and lock in . |
| 15 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 16 | Ah 'm worn to a frazzle fighting off the toffs that have been swarming round this door since she was nine and three quarters . |
| 17 | Then it 's all too easy for a baby to chew off a chunk and choke on it . |
| 18 | Therefore a passenger jumping off a moving bus and injuring himself would bring the motor vehicle within this section , but not generally where a driver has left his stationary motor vehicle parked on a road . |
| 19 | Consider using an object such as a bag or briefcase or a chair to fend off the attacker ( bear in mind the potential difference between fending off and striking with a weapon ) . |
| 20 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 21 | A MAN sparked off a full scale alert last night after he refused to be rescued as he drifted a mile and a half off shore in the North Sea in only a five foot toy dinghy . |
| 22 | A MAN sparked off a full-scale alert last night after he refused to be rescued as he drifted a mile and a half off shore in the North Sea in only a five foot toy dinghy . |
| 23 | Austerity measures : On Feb. 27 the President announced that ministers and civil servants would have to pay up to 40 per cent of their salaries into a fund to pay off the foreign debt , while private-sector firms would have to pay a " solidarity tax " . |
| 24 | Kandinskaya put out a hand to switch off the visiphone but the speaker at the other end said hastily , ‘ Oh , and another thing . ’ |
| 25 | She now has a fortnight to pay off the arrears if she and her seven children are to keep their home . |
| 26 | A spokesman for Abbey said : ‘ All lenders will charge a redemption fee as they have to pay interest on the money borrowed , even if a customer pays off the mortgage during the fixed rate period . |
| 27 | Consider what context would give the following actions symbolic resonance : using a talking stick or talisman crossing a threshold turning off a radio knocking down a wooden post . |
| 28 | As he passed by the city 's Queen 's Bridge a bullet ricocheted off a nearby wall as the Scottish internationalist dived for cover . |
| 29 | There used to be a chap told off every day to fetch us beer in two nine-quart cans . |