Example sentences of "to come off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went on the road when I was 19 , I needed to come off the road so I knew who I was . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But in the past year , the wheels have started to come off the tourism trade . |
| 4 | Unlike a ridge like the Aonach Eagach where escape is impossible until the end , it is not only feasible , but very tempting to come off the ridge and wander into the wild land of the Glenquoich forest that appears so inviting from the tops . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 9 | Using the numerous hollows and small rises unnoticed to untrained soldiers on a bare hillside , Turton and his men once lay hidden in this deadground while the Japanese moving to encircle them passed by , leaving the Australian patrol to come off the hill at nightfall . |
| 10 | Every burger joint seems to be full of leisure-wear parents waiting for their delinquents to come off the hill and be escorted home . |
| 11 | Paintings are expected to come off the walls in preparation for the tour after 1 January 1993 . |
| 12 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've got to come off the book sometime . ’ |