Example sentences of "came [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they came off the S-Bahn trains , drove their battered Trabants across the border crossing , or just walked through , they pinched themselves in disbelief . |
| 2 | They came off the top of my head . ’ |
| 3 | Whatever their basis in nefarious dealings , misunderstood intelligence , or dreams , noble things were being attempted , and if they came off the world would have cause to be grateful . |
| 4 | If Brian Lara 's timing and placement helped to give the West Indies ' innings its early momentum — 81 came off the first 20 overs — Simmons used his massive strength to devastating effect as 102 were plundered off the next 15 overs . |
| 5 | He played a game in ankle-deep ooze in Hong Kong the other week and came off the field , having masterminded the entire operation , without a speck of mud on his shorts . |
| 6 | His hundred , the ninth in a career which has now entered its 15th year , came off the last ball of the game after his captain , Graham Gooch , had delayed the final formality of a declaration . |
| 7 | When Tony came off the last , after holing his putt for yet another three , Jack Nicklaus was sitting on a tee-box waiting to start his last round . |
| 8 | ‘ As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 9 | As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 10 | A light breeze came off the sea and provided a little relief from the afternoon heat . |
| 11 | Six months after Opren came off the market he proposed no improvements but whatever changes we make in our monitoring system ‘ it is almost certain ’ , he assured us , ‘ there will be another such incident sooner or later ’ . |
| 12 | On our journey home , at some unknown point , one of the canoes broke loose and came off the trailer and was lost . |
| 13 | We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead . |
| 14 | I was the favourite to win the ‘ double ’ , but in the 200 metres , though I came off the bend in the lead , I relaxed too much and first John Regis and then Todd Bennett came past me . |
| 15 | Marian stood away clear of the spatter of water that came off the stone steps . |
| 16 | He held on to his charge until he came off the boat at Harwich . |
| 17 | Voight came off the better of the two , because Fearless Frank ( originally called Frank 's Greatest Adventure ) was the more interesting in being Phil Kaufman 's debut as director , and having the author Nelson ( The Man with the Golden Arm ) Algren playing a gangster called Needles . |
| 18 | ‘ He came off the worst but I do n't know what happened to the fairy on top . |
| 19 | Keegan , meanwhile , is ready to offer a new contract to Czech keeper Pavel Srnicek , who came off the transfer list last month . |
| 20 | David Elsworth 's useful Flat performer hardly came off the bridle for a 25-length victory at Folkestone 12 days ago . |
| 21 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 22 | These commandos then blew a gap in the road and withdrew under covering fire from HMS Oribi and HMS Onslow , the former picking them up in her ship 's boats as they came off the beach . |
| 23 | In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse . |
| 24 | At home the children all slept together and the new baby with its parents till it came off the breast . |
| 25 | The only problem was the stitch each side of the tucked stitch came off the needles at the same time . |
| 26 | ‘ I think back to people like Allan Clarke , who were annoyed if they came off the pitch without scoring a goal . |
| 27 | Shakira , 44 , has read her husband 's book as the pages came off the press . |
| 28 | They had offered him the position of editor in chief with , apparently , more direct control over the content of the paper , but only if he came off the Board . |
| 29 | I 'm sure that none of the Springbok players will have felt like that as they came off the pitch , but , in the long run , the losses will benefit them . |
| 30 | She 's only just gone down , after givin' me her life story and what 'appened at her granddad 's funeral when a wheel came off the 'earse . |