Example sentences of "[verb] come off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paintings are expected to come off the walls in preparation for the tour after 1 January 1993 . |
| 2 | She wonders if she will in fact see her son , since a tender has come off the track down the line . |
| 3 | A class 31 is seen coming off the Mansfield line with a freight from Clipstone in 1965 . |
| 4 | I hope coming off the field quickly has prevented it being too serious . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 've got to come off the book sometime . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I went on the road when I was 19 , I needed to come off the road so I knew who I was . |
| 8 | It read , ‘ LNWR-BOILERHOUSE-PRIVATE ’ , and must have come off the boilerhouse door . |
| 9 | Must have come off the shepherd 's wellies , sir . |
| 10 | Werewolf 's , with a quick press , could have come off the peg at any Army and Navy store . |
| 11 | The patiently plodding policeman : he should never have come off the beat . |
| 12 | If er there was a crisis and there was a need for a rush order er one would be talking of weeks for something that is predesigned to start coming off the production line . |
| 13 | But in the past year , the wheels have started to come off the tourism trade . |
| 14 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
| 15 | Otherwise what they got some of the latest cranes out down there , you had to come off the barrel , go up the jib , come down again , then up again . |
| 16 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | He felt that , on the whole , we should aim for people who had come off the BBC training course , who were n't yet ready to tackle major dramas , but who needed to cut their teeth on something demanding . |
| 22 | His aerial had come off the chimney |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These iterations should start coming off the line in the first quarter , another delay for what was supposed to be the standard Viking . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Oxford United have come off the rails a few times this season . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |