Example sentences of "[adv] come off " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least two of the five he had brought back with him were in worse case than he ; and Adam , who had perhaps come off lightest in actual injuries , was by no means to be envied for that , for the same story Owen had to tell to the Prince , Adam was at this moment telling to Gilleis . |
| 2 | So coming off the top of the furnace we have a mixture of nitrogen , quite a lot of that , carbon monoxide and a bit of carbon dioxide . |
| 3 | The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick . |
| 4 | The Hon. Lady 's old trick of quoting one item as an example for all the valleys has not come off this time . |
| 5 | An up excursion train hauled by J39 64872 on its way out of Sheffield near Woodburn Junction passes B1 61152 which has just come off Darnall sheds in about 1950 . |
| 6 | I 've just come off duty ! |
| 7 | Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days . |
| 8 | Mm , that 's just coming off the doors . |
| 9 | ‘ Occasionally it was a bit hairy dealing with new Directors who 'd just come off the course , so I liked to balance things by including a few established stalwarts , like Christopher Barry , whom I could rely on to be very efficient and get shows together on time . |
| 10 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 11 | Zbigniew did not come off the boat . |
| 12 | Why do the Government not come off it ? |
| 13 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 14 | Sometimes people go for a corner intending to commit themselves , but , although the brain is trying to hold the foot down , it somehow comes off the gas pedal at the very last moment . |
| 15 | Which soon comes off the shoulder anyway . |
| 16 | David Elsworth 's useful Flat performer hardly came off the bridle for a 25-length victory at Folkestone 12 days ago . |
| 17 | One slap from his whip and Phar Lap cruised into the lead again , winning by two lengths in a course record time and hardly coming off the bridle . |
| 18 | Thomas Malthus , first theorist of the dependency society and the true ancestor of present Conservative policies ( rather than Adam Smith , the preferred model ) , believed that women must always come off worst in the ‘ disgraceful ’ condition of poverty . |
| 19 | It 's probably come off a cold , it 's er , there there 's a tube in there , and the other side . |
| 20 | In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse . |
| 21 | ‘ You were limping as you came across Ana 's room and I would think you probably came off worst in this adventure . ’ |
| 22 | Now come off it . |
| 23 | Nigel Tinkler 's gelding , a smart staying handicapper on the Flat , has taken well to hurdling and has n't come off the bridle to maintain his unbeaten record . |
| 24 | It 's not fair , I have n't come off that ladder yet . |
| 25 | The locks did n't come off the animal-house doors until Jenner had cleared out . ’ |
| 26 | Half an hour , the lid of this wo n't come off this |
| 27 | ‘ I mean , the truck was smashed but the train did n't even come off the rails . |
| 28 | Well come off it Hayley , if there was a man now bloody sitting there with his bloody |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Could you call that a deliberate back pass it almost came off Greyson 's er foot by mistake . |