Example sentences of "come off the [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 Ulster Unionist MP David Trimble agreed it ‘ seemed sensible ’ to produce the proposals , as he felt Sir Patrick should ‘ come off the fence ’ .
12 Bodies are shaped several at a time and come off the machine almost ready to finish .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Being able to rationalise everything when you come off the field is , I suppose , part of being able to enjoy it all .
16 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 .
17 There are blokes crying out there when they come off the pitch , when they 've been substituted .
18 Soon the words come off the subjects , the cone becomes a ‘ Kone ’ with its mass sliced through with layers of transparent plastic to make a more categorisable kinetic work .
19 Finally a UK-designed packaging plant wraps up palette loads of printers as they come off the production line .
20 Finally a UK-designed packaging plant wraps up palette loads of printers as they come off the production line .
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