Example sentences of "n't come off " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I stick on my coat and jam the hat on so it wo n't come off in the wind . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've unscrewed the casters , ’ said Jack , ‘ the feet do n't come off , they 're fixed ! ’ |
| 4 | The skips go on and they do n't come off , and in early October the ramp is gone . |
| 5 | The collar did n't come off until the following day . |
| 6 | ‘ It wo n't come off , mister , ’ said Willie , and then Tom understood what his mother had written in the letter . |
| 7 | When they do n't come off , you run up a big score . ’ |
| 8 | L B did n't come off so well in another encounter he had with Gilbert in 1928 . |
| 9 | Nick Thompson , a 28-year-old mechanic of Morpeth , said : ‘ The idea was quite good but it just did n't come off . ’ |
| 10 | She turned her head slightly as a voice behind her said , ‘ If those idiots do n't come off soon they 'll get booed . |
| 11 | Mr Straw — who was with his children William , 11 , and Charlotte , 10 — said : ‘ It 's a miracle the train did n't come off . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Erm it does n't come off so easily , |
| 14 | Does n't come off so easily and it sort goes into it a bit , |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This silver ring is much too small now and wo n't come off my finger . ’ |
| 17 | If there 's slime , I do n't care , as long as it does n't come off on me . |
| 18 | But they say that they wo n't come off when you go swimming , and you take your clothes on and off . |
| 19 | Tap head wo n't come off |
| 20 | First check that you have removed any holding screw — they are sometimes hidden under plastic discs ; if the head still wo n't come off , unscrew the cover and place pieces of wood underneath it and close the tap ( page 31 ) . |
| 21 | You could dive it hard and the wings wo n't come off . |
| 22 | ‘ If that does n't come off I will bring in players from junior football , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ Virtually every product was in gross oversupply , largely because of too hopeful economic assumptions which did n't come off . |
| 24 | And then it wo n't come off . |
| 25 | Well I think , I mean they 're very nice , it would rather , I 'd prefer to , it would be nice to have tile there to break it , but not those damn things and they certainly wo n't come off and go back . |
| 26 | That wo n't come off . |
| 27 | Well these shelves wo n't come off . |
| 28 | Right , so I got ta be , er ah , I ca n't come off can I ? |
| 29 | It was all white because that burnt fingers would n't come off |
| 30 | I was on all day and I , it did n't come off until about four o'clock |