Example sentences of "came [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A light breeze came off the sea and provided a little relief from the afternoon heat . |
| 2 | The sky was slate-grey and a cool breeze came off the sea . |
| 3 | Keegan , meanwhile , is ready to offer a new contract to Czech keeper Pavel Srnicek , who came off the transfer list last month . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead . |
| 6 | I was the favourite to win the ‘ double ’ , but in the 200 metres , though I came off the bend in the lead , I relaxed too much and first John Regis and then Todd Bennett came past me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 9 | David Elsworth 's useful Flat performer hardly came off the bridle for a 25-length victory at Folkestone 12 days ago . |
| 10 | ‘ The malt came off the floor and it would go into a garner , and then it all had to be screened . |
| 11 | He played a game in ankle-deep ooze in Hong Kong the other week and came off the field , having masterminded the entire operation , without a speck of mud on his shorts . |
| 12 | They came off the top of my head . ’ |
| 13 | Joe came off the bed like a Saturn launcher . |
| 14 | They had offered him the position of editor in chief with , apparently , more direct control over the content of the paper , but only if he came off the Board . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1953 , when eggs came off the ration , Sainsbury 's introduced a four-egg pack . |
| 17 | As Skipper came off the ramp and saw the other horses there he grew to 17.2hh and I began to wonder if this was a good idea . |
| 18 | So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor . |
| 19 | A number might buy a personal hi-fi they suspected ‘ came off the back of a lorry ’ , but would never purchase goods burgled from a family . |
| 20 | The cross was constructed specially and came off the church roof with Crawford as he was winched away by a Wessex helicopter . |
| 21 | A tractor and trailer was being driven across the bridge , when a wheel came off the tractor and it veered through the stone parapet . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 24 | Last time we came home we , we came off the motorway and . |
| 25 | When I came off the phone she said , " Mum you 'd better sit down . |
| 26 | Dexter came off the phone and scribbled a line or two of notes when Blanche loped into the office . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 . |
| 28 | When I came off the phone . |
| 29 | Medieval travellers usually had to pick a way over boggy ground as they came off the hills . |
| 30 | And that was where er , a train came off the railways when it hit a van on |