Example sentences of "came off " in BNC.
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| 1 | They never quite came off . |
| 2 | Zurich : Shares closed steady to lower in quiet trading as prices came off their early highs on slight profit taking . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher 's gamble , which might have caused a huge crisis and the fall of the government , came off triumphantly . |
| 4 | ‘ That thing came off my tooth . |
| 5 | I wore it just about half a dozen times , during which the button came off and the lining split . |
| 6 | The Chinese used their belts so much that the metal buckle came off . |
| 7 | On these occasions the gloves came off as the Service most adversely affected sought support in Parliament , in the media , from industry , and from the electorate , in what it saw as its fight for survival . |
| 8 | His 59 came off only 55 balls , but when he and then Garner departed , Gomes was apparently stranded on 96 since Marshall was not expected to bat . |
| 9 | The end came off when your mother was playing a round with me . |
| 10 | These too had become smudged with dirt , and the velvet cuffs of her coat , and everything in the compartment was flecked with specks of greasy black which came off on to you the moment you touched them . |
| 11 | Clarissa came off sparkling with pleasure after one of her very successful numbers . |
| 12 | At one point it nearly came off . |
| 13 | RICHARD DUNWOODY ( Brown Windsor ) : ‘ Jumping Becher 's he went left and collided in the air with Forest Ranger and came off worse . |
| 14 | Unlike the last occasion they ran into each other , this time Sheehy came off worse and his plane was grounded as a result of the damage . |
| 15 | Tariff barriers came off imports . |
| 16 | In the most potentially serious accident , a ski-rack came off worse than the out-of-control 10-year-old who hit it . |
| 17 | Bell , the Rossall striker , put England ahead after 17 minutes , collecting an overhead pass and wrong-footing Wagner , the German goalkeeper , as he came off his line . |
| 18 | The dirt and the make-up came off easily , and there were no obvious bruises underneath . |
| 19 | The chain was faulty , and came off at regular intervals . |
| 20 | Shoes came off in the water . |
| 21 | It never came off . |
| 22 | She came off to a reasonable round . |
| 23 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 24 | ‘ Sara Binks ’ , as a work of prairie humour , may have had its enlightened passages , but it was not subtle and the lampoon never quite came off . |
| 25 | The nut and bolt holding my friend 's chain came off and there we were , two ten-year-olds , some fourteen miles from home with a useless bike . |
| 26 | I will refrain from the obvious comment , and merely state that Air Force food was usually good , if a bit basic , and we came off better in that department than civilians . |
| 27 | I came off well in the area of sweet coupons , too . |
| 28 | As for the LeBaron , the main thing in its favour was that the roof came off . |
| 29 | The pebble-dash came off . |
| 30 | It did n't affect us physically but the hands on my watch started to turn so fast they came off , and Derek 's digital watch went crazy . |