Example sentences of "fight off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere a lone swimmer fought off a chilling exhaustion , his senses dulled by three hours of silent reconnaissance swimming and crawling among the enemy 's beach defences . |
| 2 | A brewery which fought off a hostile takeover bid last year has announced record profits . |
| 3 | Although missing a number of players , Haslemere fought off a spirited Hale side to secure an important win . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | The Abingdon-based Morland brewers will know tomorrow if they 've managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid . |
| 7 | One of the region 's independent breweries has managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid — at least for the time being . |
| 8 | The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I , one of Britain 's largest engineering firms . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Indeed , the author once took a phone-in for 100,000 shares in Leading Leisure , which netted him a substantial commission , although he had to fight off an unscrupulous colleague who had tried to seize the telephone receiver . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even now British American Tobacco is desperately trying to fight off the predatory raid of James Goldsmith , Rothschild et al . |
| 15 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The headmaster looked as if he was fighting off a large insect that was homing in on his neck . |
| 18 | Most Iraqis share his conviction that , although Iraq started the war , it served the interests of all Arabs by fighting off the Persian onslaught . |
| 19 | It can cope with a cold , fight off a serious illness and with time , even mend a broken bone . |