Example sentences of "have come off [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | May be of use if a small chip has come off a bone . |
2 | She wonders if she will in fact see her son , since a tender has come off the track down the line . |
3 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
4 | It read , ‘ LNWR-BOILERHOUSE-PRIVATE ’ , and must have come off the boilerhouse door . |
5 | Must have come off the shepherd 's wellies , sir . |
6 | Werewolf 's , with a quick press , could have come off the peg at any Army and Navy store . |
7 | The patiently plodding policeman : he should never have come off the beat . |
8 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I opened the lockers to pull out the kit but found that the top had come off a water container and half a gallon had spilt , soaking the tea bags and bursting the envelope which carried my documents . |
11 | 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 . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ’ . |
14 | His aerial had come off the chimney |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . ’ |
18 | what 's come off the ground . |