Example sentences of "we [verb] off [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually . |
| 2 | ‘ Look , we got off to a bad start . |
| 3 | Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now . |
| 4 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 5 | We drove off into a gentle January night . |
| 6 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 7 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 8 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 9 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 10 | We started off with a positive number here , and a positive number there , and we divided one positive number by another positive number . |
| 11 | We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square . |
| 12 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 13 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |