Example sentences of "come off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , remember to stretch when you come off court as well . |
| 2 | Also , remember to stretch when you come off court as well . |
| 3 | Remarking that Dostoevsky 's The Idiot does not altogether ‘ come off ’ , he is making a coherent and discussable point , whether or not one accepts it . |
| 4 | What the cynics overlook , however , is that when Brittain tilts at windmills , it is the windmills that frequently come off second best . |
| 5 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 6 | The overlords at Citroen say it 's just a show car , but with Peugeot and Citroen able endlessly to vary the mix of 605s and XMs that come off the shared line at Sochoux , a third model , an XM coupe , is not an impossibility . |
| 7 | My missus has to buy the kids ' clothes down the jumble sale and if she wants a pair of nylons they come off the Green Shield stamps . |
| 8 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 9 | They themselves had been exploited for the purposes of exploitation and although they made a stab at the psychedelic scene , it had n't really come off . |
| 10 | The trouser , sock and shoe come off the hemiplegic leg last . |
| 11 | It may demonstrate a sense of outrage toward the criminal and the enjoyment of seeing the wrongdoer punished and justice being done , given that in the majority of crime stories and programmes the criminals come off worse . |
| 12 | At the same time come off your toes , bend at the waist so you end up bent forward with your hands almost touching the ground . |
| 13 | You wait till you come off . ’ |
| 14 | Being able to rationalise everything when you come off the field is , I suppose , part of being able to enjoy it all . |
| 15 | Or you go out , come off feeling it was rubbish , but the crowd are going wild and the road crew love it again . |
| 16 | Or you go out , you 're feeling great , the crowd are steaming , and then you come off , and the roadies say , ‘ Well … ‘ ’ |
| 17 | Bodies are shaped several at a time and come off the machine almost ready to finish . |
| 18 | Not all hairs come off in one go however , and you may need to go over sections again and again . |
| 19 | ‘ Dolly 's head come off . ’ |
| 20 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |
| 21 | I 'll be back beneath it when the bird bans come off the rest of this stretch of coast on August 15th , unless the military gives me a very good reason not to in the interim . |
| 22 | People who try to hurt him usually find they come off a lot worse than he does . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Ears never come off ! ’ the Trunchbull shouted . |
| 24 | ‘ They stretch most marvellously , like these are doing now , but I can assure you they never come off ! ’ |
| 25 | Dogs that bite toads usually come off second best . |
| 26 | By observing how a list is managed I found out that although lists are kept chronologically , patients seldom come off the list in that order . |
| 27 | The two slower movements come off better , but even here the playing , thoughtful though it is , does not match up to the rapt quality which the finest artists achieve in this music , and the Scherzo surprisingly fails to take flight ( its Trio is plain dull ) . |
| 28 | However , ‘ Vltava ’ and ‘ From Bohemia 's woods and fields ’ come off successfully , while the rhetoric of ‘ Tabor ’ and ‘ Blaník ’ is not overwhelming . |
| 29 | Thus , those who had already ‘ come off ’ were underrepresented in the sample . |
| 30 | I come off , like , but they did n't give you no treatment or anything . |