Example sentences of "she tried [verb] [pers pn] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she tried to push him off , but he was too forceful . |
| 2 | ‘ Which means that Roger Kenyon 's in the plot against us , whatever it may be , ’ Susan said , and then , with a shrug , she tried to laugh it off . |
| 3 | She tried to shrug it off . |
| 4 | With a strangled gasp of fury she tried to pull it off , but he held both her hands , preventing her . |
| 5 | With a massive effort she tried to fight him off , but he had locked his hands behind her neck , and all her efforts to squirm out of his grasp were useless . |
| 6 | She tried to shake it off . |
| 7 | She tried to fob him off tactfully at first , but then he became brutal . |