Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 2 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 3 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 4 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 5 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 6 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 7 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 8 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian . |
| 11 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 12 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |