Example sentences of "come off [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 May I , as someone who has recently come off the dole , comment on Donald Gould 's article ( Forum , 20 January , p 180 ) .
2 He said ‘ The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary , and it has only recently come off the Comecon list .
3 Although Vinny Samways has now come off the transfer list , Spurs look light in the key area .
4 I 've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend .
5 Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane .
6 The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life .
7 The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan .
8 ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’
9 At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team .
10 He has not yet come off the fence and told us whether he supports the barrage project .
11 If one analyses the appeal of desktop publishing the basic appeal is its capability to generate material that looks printed , not like something that came off a daisywheel or dot matrix printer .
12 The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me .
13 A suitable window frame came off a skip behind a local double glazing merchant , and was incorporated into the studwork .
14 ‘ The roof came off a woman 's house , and we all helped to save what we could .
15 The tailpieces look like they came off an Eko electric from the '60s , and they 've added squiggly wire designs that echo the famous ‘ R ’ tailpiece — from fifty feet , anyway .
16 January 30 : Cannabis worth £100,000 uncovered on a fruit lorry stopped coming off a ferry at Larne .
17 She 's coming off a couple of losers , and Hollywood is watching her . ’
18 If the silicon chips coming off a production line begin to fail , ordinary optical-microscope pictures of the minute circuitry can often help to sort out what is going wrong .
19 ‘ Collins was unbeaten when he faced me and he did n't look the same fighter coming off a loss . ’
20 And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values .
21 This can be just as traumatic and lengthy as coming off an opioid , as the following interviewee experienced :
22 Ulster Unionist MP David Trimble agreed it ‘ seemed sensible ’ to produce the proposals , as he felt Sir Patrick should ‘ come off the fence ’ .
23 ‘ People come off a Compass tour completely knackered !
24 People who try to hurt him usually find they come off a lot worse than he does . ’
25 Bodies are shaped several at a time and come off the machine almost ready to finish .
26 They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line .
27 I 'll be back beneath it when the bird bans come off the rest of this stretch of coast on August 15th , unless the military gives me a very good reason not to in the interim .
28 Being able to rationalise everything when you come off the field is , I suppose , part of being able to enjoy it all .
29 By observing how a list is managed I found out that although lists are kept chronologically , patients seldom come off the list in that order .
30 There are blokes crying out there when they come off the pitch , when they 've been substituted .
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