Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition has got off to a tremendous start with 54 wins coming from the first 72 fixtures . |
| 2 | PETER Scudamore 's neighbour Nigel Twiston-Davies has got off to a tremendous start this season with 24 wins in the bag already . |
| 3 | The second half has got off to a good start , with slightly higher orders for October . |
| 4 | TV Quick , the German interloper in the British TV listings market , has got off to a flying start . |
| 5 | Oxford University 's Matthew Syed has got off to a flying start in the Olympic Qualifying tournament in Italy , winning both his opening matches . |
| 6 | The Grand National meeting at Aintree has got off to a tragic start with two horses dying in the first race . |
| 7 | NEW LIFE : A new branch of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child has got off to an encouraging start at St Winefride 's parish in Neston , where Jim Hallis is the chairman , Margaret Unsworth is the secretary and Debbi Trotman is the treasurer . |
| 8 | He criticises their lack of any real depth of Gaelic culture , and with the exception of Machair , which has got off to an excellent start , all the other programmes seem to be shallow or merely ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ . |
| 9 | Your marriage has got off to an unfortunate start but it does n't warrant the last rites just yet . |
| 10 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 11 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 12 | His ambulance service has taken off in a big way . |
| 13 | Noel has cleared off with the one-man tent . |
| 14 | Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge . |
| 15 | Recent investment in manufacturing capacity and quality systems has paid off with an increased share in the markets for sputtering targets , metal seal lids for semiconductor packages and fabricated metal products for electronic applications . |
| 16 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 17 | The club 's Jarrow born manager Jimmy Mullen ( Backtrack , December 10 ) was obliged to send a deputy to last Friday 's manager of the year awards the entire team has shoved off on a sponsored fortnight in Bermuda . |
| 18 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 19 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Our free newspapers continue to perform well with the North West Echo having got off to an excellent start . ’ |
| 21 | Given that the evening was meant to be so special , so significant , they could hardly have got off to a worse start , but Jessica refused to compromise . |
| 22 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 23 | Although Simmel is quoted , there is none of the subtlety of his analysis of the necessary contradictions of industrial society , and the emphasis on goals of happy homes and cohesive families appears cut off from the wider realms of social action . |
| 24 | In this way , what might have started off as a cyclical deficit will soon become a structural deficit unless action is taken to bring borrowing down . |
| 25 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 26 | No , he 'd scarper , and leave me to get hauled off to the nearest loony-bin . |
| 27 | In general , DATEC courses seem to have got off to a reasonable start in the art colleges . |
| 28 | The School appears to have got off to a flourishing start . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the company 's entry into the largely unchartered bagged sector with Strollers seems to have got off to a fair start . |
| 30 | ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully . |