Example sentences of "come off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick . |
| 2 | Nigel Tinkler 's gelding , a smart staying handicapper on the Flat , has taken well to hurdling and has n't come off the bridle to maintain his unbeaten record . |
| 3 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 4 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 5 | As I say , nowadays I get the information from you over the phone , and then when we 've got somebody who said Oh no , it 's only a small flat , I 've got this this and this and that 's the big pieces of furniture , er if it 's somebody that 's done it on spec I say Well look give me a ring back in an hour if er when you 've come off the phone you er there 's something you 've forgotten . |
| 6 | Brandy was poured immediately , and ‘ On a side-board was placed for us , who had come off the sea , a substantial dinner , and a variety of wines . ’ |
| 7 | They want to know what ‘ Cool As F— ’ means when they 're just things that have come off the top of your head and you 've stuck on a T-shirt . ’ |
| 8 | It read , ‘ LNWR-BOILERHOUSE-PRIVATE ’ , and must have come off the boilerhouse door . |
| 9 | His aerial had come off the chimney |
| 10 | THE post-match critic who wondered if Hibs had come off the team bus moving backwards might have been guilty of allowing his cynicism to get the better of him , but there can be no-one at Easter Road this morning able to derive any satisfaction from the side 's performance at Ibrox . |
| 11 | Must have come off the shepherd 's wellies , sir . |
| 12 | She wonders if she will in fact see her son , since a tender has come off the track down the line . |
| 13 | THE phrase ‘ come off it ’ , usually directed at someone believed to be lying , began life in late 19th-Century America as ‘ come off the side ’ . |
| 14 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 15 | The patiently plodding policeman : he should never have come off the beat . |
| 16 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
| 17 | Werewolf 's , with a quick press , could have come off the peg at any Army and Navy store . |
| 18 | what 's come off the ground . |
| 19 | I went on the road when I was 19 , I needed to come off the road so I knew who I was . |
| 20 | Drivers over the pollution limit get 10 days to put things right and take an MOT test , or their vehicles have to come off the road . |
| 21 | But in the past year , the wheels have started to come off the tourism trade . |
| 22 | Unlike a ridge like the Aonach Eagach where escape is impossible until the end , it is not only feasible , but very tempting to come off the ridge and wander into the wild land of the Glenquoich forest that appears so inviting from the tops . |
| 23 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 24 | She knew as she waited for Reception to ring her back that it could well be , if Cara had been in touch with her parents , that she stood to come off the phone feeling worse than ever . |
| 25 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 26 | Using the numerous hollows and small rises unnoticed to untrained soldiers on a bare hillside , Turton and his men once lay hidden in this deadground while the Japanese moving to encircle them passed by , leaving the Australian patrol to come off the hill at nightfall . |
| 27 | Every burger joint seems to be full of leisure-wear parents waiting for their delinquents to come off the hill and be escorted home . |
| 28 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |
| 29 | There are racist vermin out there who have always taken whatever comfort they can from any public figure that refused to come off the fence . |
| 30 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |