Example sentences of "[verb] off on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Two of London 's top match teams head off on a magic mystery tour this Sunday with the historic London AA Shield as their goal .
2 Driving off on the first day was Sandy Lyle … as a winner of the British Open and American Masters he 's got to be one of the best judges of courses around
3 The crowds who gathered on Alexanderplatz and then moved off on a winding trail through East Berlin were in any case convinced he was their man .
4 It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw .
5 They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows .
6 I think we got off on the right foot . ’
7 PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander .
8 My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution .
9 Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning , even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them , and sat back in his chair to look at Dyson .
10 ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now .
11 That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot .
12 Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 .
13 The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens .
14 Small wonder , then , that a lot of resentment and guilt rub off on the social worker himself or herself ; and that , when opportunity arises for public shouts of , " No better than we are ! " , it may be seized upon with a fine disregard for logic in expiation of sins which might be regarded in others as excusable .
15 As he was all poshed up in his best uniform , ready to go off on a 48-hour pass , he was not best pleased at this turn of events .
16 The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course .
17 Rolls are normally 100 metres and , if in this length the coating blotches , or a ‘ squeegee ’ effect appears in the dyed colour , or perhaps the ‘ picks ’ form lumpy doubled threads in the weft , then the run has to be sold off on a shorter roll .
18 ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction .
19 She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting .
20 ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully .
21 ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt .
22 ‘ I feel dressed to sail off on a luxury cruise . ’
23 The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress .
24 The strike was called off on the following day .
25 It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot .
26 So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey .
27 First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right .
28 Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps .
29 In Siam , Thomson teamed up with a journalist called Kennedy , and , together with a large entourage , they set off on a perilous journey to Cambodia .
30 Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home .
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