Example sentences of "[noun] come off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tractor and trailer was being driven across the bridge , when a wheel came off the tractor and it veered through the stone parapet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 4 | When Scott came off the ship , a newspaper man walked up to him . |
| 5 | The only problem was the stitch each side of the tucked stitch came off the needles at the same time . |
| 6 | And the result is snow coming off the roof . |
| 7 | Univel Inc was down taking pictures for its scrapbook of the first editions of UnixWare coming off the production line last week . |
| 8 | The wind coming off the North Sea along here can skin your lips , even on a day when the sun appears to be shining . |
| 9 | ‘ As we went up there were big snow plumes coming off the mountain to the left and right of us but there was n't much wind . |
| 10 | How did the car come off the road ? |
| 11 | How did the car come off the road ? |
| 12 | The wind comes off the sea so predictably that the first nine , which is played into the wind , was deliberately designed 300 yards shorter than the downwind second nine . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 15 | So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor . |
| 16 | As Skipper came off the ramp and saw the other horses there he grew to 17.2hh and I began to wonder if this was a good idea . |
| 17 | I watch carefully the articles coming off the assembly line and remember that that one was the first , that the second and so on . |
| 18 | We had 160 golfers coming off the course at once to try to change in the little clubhouse . |
| 19 | Millie 's evidently seen him with the slates coming off the roof and the storm cones flying . |
| 20 | The Montego was going so fast in places persuing officers saw sparks coming off the engine . |
| 21 | A man had once weighed his daughter in the huge scales used in the port for the cargoes coming off the ships from the East , he had promised that the suitor his daughter chose would take her weight in gold for a dowry , she was so virtuous . |
| 22 | I think that bloke coming off the ladder with the buckets of paint would 've been funnier than them |
| 23 | Such a flare coming off the earth that it actually hurts my retina . |
| 24 | So every ten point six minutes , another engine comes off the end . |
| 25 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |
| 26 | Despite the outcry from MG enthusiasts all over the world , the last MGB came off the production line in October 1981 . |
| 27 | A light breeze came off the sea and provided a little relief from the afternoon heat . |
| 28 | The sky was slate-grey and a cool breeze came off the sea . |
| 29 | All nine aircraft clattered away at full power down the ‘ deck ’ , with their nosewheels coming off the ground very quickly , in what was one of the most impressive set pieces seen by the writer in many years . |
| 30 | This being Iceland it was black , jet-black weathered lava , and was kissed only by a light breeze coming off the glacier . |