Example sentences of "[art] [noun] fall off " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know how it is Elsie when you go to the show in August and they have those horses jumping and you are waiting for one of the riders to fall off . |
| 2 | Chris had to stop ‘ Nothing Natural ’ as the beater fell off his bass drum pedal . |
| 3 | If we sell a bed and the legs fall off , the customer wo n't come back . ’ |
| 4 | The pincers fell off . |
| 5 | Having edged him to the end of the branch , he utters a shattering ‘ bock ’ in his ear and the rival falls off . |
| 6 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 7 | Without warning the air was split by a high pitched banshee wail , rising and falling on a sliding scale of pain that would have made the slates fall off the roof if there had been any . |
| 8 | All the stack-pipes fell off in the Daily Express Trophy at Silverstone , but Graham won again and that race carried a lot of money . |
| 9 | He waited till the end of the match fell off . |
| 10 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 11 | At all times goods were being imported ; in much of England the distribution patterns imply unequal access to such goods , the quantities falling off rapidly beyond the point of entry or greatest consumption . |
| 12 | ‘ The frills fell off , ’ retorted Meredith cheerfully , willing herself to walk normally across the room and suffer his amused appraisal . |
| 13 | It would seem that this director was flying in the authority 's private , twice daily , shuttle to the site ( being a wartime airfield it has its own landing strip ) when one of the wheels fell off as the under carriage was being lowered . |
| 14 | There was a plastic model of Redd Harvest 's G-Mek V12 ‘ Nola Gay in the packet of krill , but the wheels fell off when she ran it across the table . |
| 15 | However , there is no denying that the picture quality does suffer at these low levels : the colours become increasingly weak and washed-out looking , and the sharpness of the definition falls off because the lens is having to work at its maximum aperture . |
| 16 | The first time most of the people fell off halfway up . |
| 17 | As he jumped the ditch that joined the two pools the helmet fell off . |
| 18 | I can only guess that for erm some reason the bolts on the back of the chair fell off , or came lose and when she sat on it she leaned on the back , in an unusual position and fell through ! |
| 19 | I had to go upstairs to tell the woman above that I was using the bathroom , because if she walked about above , the plaster fell off . |
| 20 | After all that , one of the arms fell off recently , reminding me of the time the same thing happened during a recording of Give Us A Clue . |
| 21 | These optical systems work well , though the accuracy falls off in poor light and when the subject is dark in tone or lacking in contrast . |
| 22 | She heard the numbers falling off and the cries of ‘ Try over-r-r-rl ’ and ‘ Edawick ! ’ as they took up station , one by one . |
| 23 | The nowers remain closed until the bird squeezes the bud , which explodes open , offering nectar ( but possibly no insects unlike most sunbird flowers ) and is pollinated ; if not visited , the flowers fall off . |
| 24 | In the past five years my Honda Accord would n't start in Scotland ( the earth wire from the battery fell off ) and my Honda Quintet quietly conked out on the M40 ( cause never found ) . |
| 25 | However , stability demands that the gain falls off at high frequency ( see next section ) . |
| 26 | I became very proud of my wounds as the pain grew less , and I enjoyed flashing the bandage around to gain sympathy , until one night , after a couple of months , the nail fell off without warning . |
| 27 | She does a little dance , making a noise like a trombone , then she bows and the hat falls off . |
| 28 | All them black squiggly lines fell off and the er the front fell off and this little round bit fell off . |
| 29 | On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green . |
| 30 | By Monza , Jackie was still well down on his former team-mate Graham Hill , now driving in a Lotus , and Jackie retired with engine problems while Hill had a wheel fall off . |