Example sentences of "try [verb] me off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perry tried to kill me off — as if one could kill an abstraction , a measurement . |
| 2 | Er even the headmaster said , he tried to put me off . |
| 3 | Frank tried to fob me off . |
| 4 | He recalled : ‘ The partner and my uncle went to the six o'clock train for London to try to head me off . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you trying to kill me off by degrees ? ’ |
| 6 | She was trying to frighten me off , of course . |
| 7 | They 're trying to buy me off in hopes I 'll bow to their idiotic new arrangements without a bleat . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You mean you 're trying to buy me off ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why are you trying to put me off ? ’ |
| 10 | Christopher 's voice broke into her thoughts : ‘ You 're trying to put me off . ’ |
| 11 | Come on , you 've gabbled enough and you 're just trying to put me off my game . |
| 12 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 13 | trying to put me off it or not but |
| 14 | ‘ No , I did n't think you did , so kindly go away and stop trying to put me off . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ How dare you come here trying to put me off my guard with some absurd story ? ’ he countered with simmering hostility , regarding her belligerent stance with brooding interest . |
| 16 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 're trying to get me off with her , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just that I get real fed up with bozos like you trying to rip me off all the time . |
| 19 | Never mind trying to block me off ! |
| 20 | But no , the kids had stopped laughing they all say she 's trying to tell me off ! ! |