Example sentences of "[noun pl] come off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As we went up there were big snow plumes coming off the mountain to the left and right of us but there was n't much wind . |
| 2 | it 's erm , it 's not too bad this time of year , you can peg out , the legs come off it , you know that brown one that you bought me ? |
| 3 | I watch carefully the articles coming off the assembly line and remember that that one was the first , that the second and so on . |
| 4 | We had 160 golfers coming off the course at once to try to change in the little clubhouse . |
| 5 | Millie 's evidently seen him with the slates coming off the roof and the storm cones flying . |
| 6 | The Montego was going so fast in places persuing officers saw sparks coming off the engine . |
| 7 | A man had once weighed his daughter in the huge scales used in the port for the cargoes coming off the ships from the East , he had promised that the suitor his daughter chose would take her weight in gold for a dowry , she was so virtuous . |
| 8 | We have six side lines come off it — different lengths , you see — with these spinners on them — they 're the bait — all with hooks . |
| 9 | All nine aircraft clattered away at full power down the ‘ deck ’ , with their nosewheels coming off the ground very quickly , in what was one of the most impressive set pieces seen by the writer in many years . |
| 10 | This is where so many Christians come off the rails . |
| 11 | In 1953 , when eggs came off the ration , Sainsbury 's introduced a four-egg pack . |
| 12 | Manchester City4 , Leeds0 THE WHEELS came off Leeds United 's hitherto solid championship challenge at Maine Road in a match which , paradoxically , they could easily have collected the point they needed to return to the top of the table . |
| 13 | Shakira , 44 , has read her husband 's book as the pages came off the press . |
| 14 | It was a depressing experience to walk along the rows of these giant steel structures coming off the production line and then to see , at the end of the row , the one earmarked for Somerset . |
| 15 | I mean , I 've detoxed six times now and I never have any problems coming off smack . |
| 16 | And there we were , two friends coming off the train together . |
| 17 | Excavations indicate that our ancestors frequented the lake margin where streams coming off the volcanic highlands entered the lake . |
| 18 | I saw the bits coming off her fag She said you stupid bastard well he was like this were n't he ? |
| 19 | One of the girls come off the ladder on Saturday . |
| 20 | which involves like when the frames comes off the weaving and they 're yarn left , I strip the yarn off . |
| 21 | Every burger joint seems to be full of leisure-wear parents waiting for their delinquents to come off the hill and be escorted home . |
| 22 | Smokers came off worst from budget price rises : the cost of tobacco rose by 12 per cent in April , the month 's RPI figures reveal . |
| 23 | The weight of packets of biscuits coming off the line was a matter of some importance to the company . |
| 24 | On present plans , 648 aircraft will be produced , at a cost of $65 billion-95 billion , the first ones coming off the production line in early 1997 . |
| 25 | Ronni peered at the faces coming off the boat . |
| 26 | The Women 's Environmental Network ( WEN ) has recently disputed the results of two studies commissioned by Procter and Gamble , which compared the environmental impact of disposable and terry nappies , with terry nappies coming off worst ( Chem . |
| 27 | His views were endorsed by Coun David Walsh , committee chairman , who said he first thought the Marton hotel had been chosen for barristers coming off the Parkway . |
| 28 | BANGOR chairman Gifford McConkey must have dreamt of seeing a team in yellow shirts and blue shorts coming off the pitch victorious in Europe . |
| 29 | has nine and sixteen , Sri Lanka a hundred and thirty-eight for four , yes it has dented his figures , seventeen overs , ten maidens , two for twenty-seven , so ten runs coming off that over . |
| 30 | How some pigments come off more easily than others ( reds and blacks always seem more soluble when I 'm cleaning with ammonia ) . |