Example sentences of "[vb past] off on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 2 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 3 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 4 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 8 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And then Saturday , it meant they got off on the Sunday and the Monday , they got their long weekend you see , when they reached the Saturday . |
| 11 | Yeah you 're going on as if , you started off on the fact that you do n't think we 've got any fear of them cos their kids are running round on the street and now all of sudden you say we have because they 've got nuclear weapons you say . |
| 12 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 13 | He stupidly took off on the outside of a wave when someone else had already established priority on the inside . |
| 14 | Liam McNamara ( a North Shore surfer riding a Willis Phazer ) took off on the first , followed by Tony Moniz ( another local ) on the second and Carroll on the third . |
| 15 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
| 16 | Of the 133 RAF aircrew who took off on the night of May 16 , 56 failed to return . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | That letter was in draft form , ready to be checked by lawyers , then typed out and sent off on the morning of 27 February 1991 . |
| 19 | Constantly at war with my vertigo , I decided not to be pathetic and strode off on the flat , step-like slabs that top the crest of the ridge . |
| 20 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 21 | You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian . |
| 22 | Moodie , suffering a bout of flu , kept up the momentum but eased off on the last lap with a minor suspension problem . |
| 23 | I do n't perhaps not that bad but I would have definitely braked and not just eased off on the accelerator . |
| 24 | Sometimes that attitude rubbed off on the children : |
| 25 | and these people , you know , er had a deputation and all this business and I think some of that rubbed off on the children and , and you 've |
| 26 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 27 | He stood up abruptly , and without explanation or offer of assistance , set off on the descent to the factory floor . |
| 28 | However , Jacques Etienne never forgot his Hebridean origins and in 1826 set off on the long , difficult journey to his father 's home at Howbeg . |
| 29 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |
| 30 | The inhabitants of Stowey for their part were already passing judgement as Coleridge , Southey and Henry Poole set off on the road back to Shurton . |