Example sentences of "[noun sg] come off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tractor and trailer was being driven across the bridge , when a wheel came off the tractor and it veered through the stone parapet . |
| 2 | She 's only just gone down , after givin' me her life story and what 'appened at her granddad 's funeral when a wheel came off the 'earse . |
| 3 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 4 | The only problem was the stitch each side of the tucked stitch came off the needles at the same time . |
| 5 | And the result is snow coming off the roof . |
| 6 | The wind coming off the North Sea along here can skin your lips , even on a day when the sun appears to be shining . |
| 7 | How did the car come off the road ? |
| 8 | How did the car come off the road ? |
| 9 | The wind comes off the sea so predictably that the first nine , which is played into the wind , was deliberately designed 300 yards shorter than the downwind second nine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I think that bloke coming off the ladder with the buckets of paint would 've been funnier than them |
| 12 | Such a flare coming off the earth that it actually hurts my retina . |
| 13 | So every ten point six minutes , another engine comes off the end . |
| 14 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |
| 15 | A light breeze came off the sea and provided a little relief from the afternoon heat . |
| 16 | The sky was slate-grey and a cool breeze came off the sea . |
| 17 | This being Iceland it was black , jet-black weathered lava , and was kissed only by a light breeze coming off the glacier . |
| 18 | The ball came off the studs on his boot . |
| 19 | When the door opened , he was too far into the jamb to confront Elliott directly and his kick came off the wood , catching an arm and missing the ribs entirely . |
| 20 | They still do , but I 've learnt now to keep them in my lap so that the sweat coming off the hands soaks into the trousers . |
| 21 | He 'd been feeling good that day : finding the sweet-spot time after time , the ball coming off the racquet head with no sense of effort . |
| 22 | Out of the window I can see the glow coming off the musical , stomping beargarden . |
| 23 | yeah sometimes you get a tree like with a little bit coming off the side |
| 24 | now that branch will divide into to two or you 'll get one one bit coming off the side you might get another one up here |
| 25 | There is a foul smell coming off the water , which , although cloudy , does not appear too dirty . |
| 26 | Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again . |
| 27 | Sometimes when the two meet it forms an interesting scene as on the occasion that the recent Waterloo to Exeter service arrived at Andover and there was a momentary pause as the diesel locomotive came off the train and passed ‘ Sir Lamiel ’ waiting to take over . |
| 28 | I do n't think that I shall every forget the day when sugar came off the ration and at last we could make toffee . |
| 29 | And that was where er , a train came off the railways when it hit a van on |
| 30 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |