Example sentences of "not come off " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talked of becoming party leader ‘ for life ’ , and when it did not come off , he sacked the Prime Minister , Mr Ion Gheorghe Maurer , after 14 years in the job . |
| 2 | A pity , say analysts , that it did not come off : America 's biggest-ever bank merger could have led to a barrelful of such deals — and not before time . |
| 3 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 4 | Holden was missing for 18 minutes and Reid admitted : ‘ We took a calculated gamble by not replacing Rick — and it did not come off . ’ |
| 5 | Instead , they 've spent £1million on Dion Dublin , an unproven centre forward from the Second Division who may or may not come off . |
| 6 | The ‘ conjuring trick ’ — which , of course , can not come off — is that of investing in a process those features of the use of an expression which constitute its grammar . |
| 7 | It can not come off , but we aré such masters of philosophical self-deception that it can seem to , and then ‘ it can seem as if the rules of grammar are in a certain sense an unpacking of something we experience all at once when we use a word ’ . |
| 8 | These artists clearly stand close to the Pioneers and are attempting to adapt black-figure to the new movement , with some success : crowded compositions , figures overlapping each other or the borders or cut off by them , vigorous drawing with rather slap dash incision ; but the elaborate fore shortenings and musculature are not much attempted and do not come off very well . |
| 9 | Many firms take risks that do not come off . |
| 10 | His gamble on the ability of industry to produce improved living conditions before the peasantry and proletariat found the burden intolerable , did not come off . |
| 11 | She is a fine singer in her usual idioms , but her inclusion here was a bold experiment which did not come off . |
| 12 | This is the other way : you fix the expenditure first , and you hope afterwards ; and if it does n't come off ( which it is unlikely to , if you are gambling on an improbability ) , then the result is the monetisation of debt with the consequences which we know . |
| 13 | I stick on my coat and jam the hat on so it wo n't come off in the wind . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've unscrewed the casters , ’ said Jack , ‘ the feet do n't come off , they 're fixed ! ’ |
| 15 | The skips go on and they do n't come off , and in early October the ramp is gone . |
| 16 | The collar did n't come off until the following day . |
| 17 | ‘ It wo n't come off , mister , ’ said Willie , and then Tom understood what his mother had written in the letter . |
| 18 | When they do n't come off , you run up a big score . ’ |
| 19 | L B did n't come off so well in another encounter he had with Gilbert in 1928 . |
| 20 | Nick Thompson , a 28-year-old mechanic of Morpeth , said : ‘ The idea was quite good but it just did n't come off . ’ |
| 21 | She turned her head slightly as a voice behind her said , ‘ If those idiots do n't come off soon they 'll get booed . |
| 22 | Mr Straw — who was with his children William , 11 , and Charlotte , 10 — said : ‘ It 's a miracle the train did n't come off . |
| 23 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 24 | Erm it does n't come off so easily , |
| 25 | Does n't come off so easily and it sort goes into it a bit , |
| 26 | If the sweetest moment in life is a visit to the brothel which does n't come off , perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written , which is never sullied with a definite shape , which never needs be exposed to a less loving gaze than that of its author . |
| 27 | This silver ring is much too small now and wo n't come off my finger . ’ |
| 28 | If there 's slime , I do n't care , as long as it does n't come off on me . |
| 29 | But they say that they wo n't come off when you go swimming , and you take your clothes on and off . |
| 30 | Tap head wo n't come off |