Object

• off: Kicking from the hand is permitted, Tries converted No hand offs, fend offs, scrag tackles or barging.

Preposition: for

• yourselves: Yes folks - once they've taken your money safely you can fend for yourselves!

Modifying Another Word

• successfully: Seedhouse, meanwhile, was successfully fending off Robertson with Tim Jones struggling along behind, still short on traction.

• just: Chadwick just fended off Hutchinson by two-tenths of a second at the flag.

• only: But then he produces a real snorter, which Ponting can only fend to third slip, where Andrew Strauss takes a simple catch.

• also: They have a history of battling not only aggressive neighbors, but also fending off the North Sea.

• n't: Even his closest friends are beginning to doubt him, wondering why he wo n't fend off these accusations.

• then: Ferguson then fended off John Loebell and Stuart Kestenbaum to the flag.

Particle object: off_obj

• accusation: To me, the storyline is more than adequate to fend off accusations of being a total dead weight.

• attack: How does the tree fend off a fungus attack?

• competition: Seventeen-year-old Catriona Price has been awarded one of only 150 places in the orchestra, fending off competition from more than 500 applicants.

• bid: He had already fended off a bid from Everton, who were prepared to pay £ 25,000.

• challenge: Kyle had to fend off a spirited challenge from Mike Stewart of Keith & District to cross the line in pole position.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: Davey soared up the order; Walton manages to fend off Lowe.