Example sentences of "have [verb] off [prep] a [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 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 8 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 9 | His ambulance service has taken off in a big way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In general , DATEC courses seem to have got off to a reasonable start in the art colleges . |
| 15 | The School appears to have got off to a flourishing start . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the company 's entry into the largely unchartered bagged sector with Strollers seems to have got off to a fair start . |
| 17 | ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully . |
| 18 | Spiro is believed to have driven off in a four-wheel-drive vehicle . |
| 19 | Spiro is believed to have driven off in a four-wheel-drive vehicle . |
| 20 | Miserably aware that the evening had lurched off to a regrettable start , Shannon fell into step beside him , irritated still further when she caught the receptionist 's knowing smirk at the sight of them walking out together . |
| 21 | You 've got off to a good start , Deirdra , so keep writing — and reading ! |
| 22 | They 've got off to a good start with a pair of eighteen carat gold and turquoise earrings donated by the Elizabeth Gage company of London . |
| 23 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 24 | In a meeting late on Tuesday , the couple agreed the tour had got off to a bad start , upsetting the Koreans . |
| 25 | Their decision came during a meeting late on Tuesday when the couple realised the tour had got off to a bad start . |
| 26 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I had to start off with a Japanese Top 40 guitar — inch high action ! |
| 28 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 29 | Relaxing in the bar of Le Palais after the sweat-soaked teenagers had trooped off into a sunny Autumn afternoon , Waterman explained the strategy behind this latest step in Kylie 's inexorable rise . |
| 30 | Our second daughter Rachel had gone off to a finishing school near Florence , while Ailsa and her painter husband had bought a house in the country near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk . |