Example sentences of "got off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 2 | Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start . |
| 3 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
| 4 | ‘ Either Fairbank 's punishment is disproportionate , or Whitehead got off lightly , ’ Brook said . |
| 5 | The Pizza Express London league got off to an early start this year with a shortened programme . |
| 6 | Shell , who succeeded Mike Shanahan last week , got off to a winning start thanks to the safety , Eddie Anderson , who returned an interception 87 yards for the winning touchdown early in the fourth quarter . |
| 7 | The European champions got off to the best possible start when the full-back Graeme Rutjes headed them into the lead after 12 minutes . |
| 8 | It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start , politically speaking , in 1921–2 . |
| 9 | But even these strange raptures were forgotten when they got off and , outside the flats , Erika turned on Paul . |
| 10 | He was strongly tempted to stay on the train and take his chance but remembering the man he had seen the Railway Police arrest he got off at Lichtenberg and bought a ticket at the machine . |
| 11 | He agreed and got dressed and we got off . |
| 12 | Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January . |
| 13 | Botham 's 57 was top score , so at least his captaincy got off to a bright start . |
| 14 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 15 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 16 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 17 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
| 18 | So I got off and walked around for an hour or so , unseeing , my mind a total blank . |
| 19 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 20 | Both of them got off and walked . |
| 21 | She got off her bed resolute and determined . |
| 22 | Dreadful nightmares , when I finally got off to sleep , of men attacking me — like that man who had to cut women on their arms before he could find them desirable . |
| 23 | DEALINGS in BDM , the storage and retrieval company recently brought to market , got off to an uneasy start , standing at 117p against the 125p issue price . |
| 24 | The election campaign also got off to a poor start . |
| 25 | When she reached her stop Maggie got off and paused to stare out over Glasgow Green , spotting the People s Palace in the distance . |
| 26 | Then he got off and set off back towards Slough . |
| 27 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 28 | Some of the boys got off and placed bombs on the trucks . |
| 29 | Because of the condition of the ramp , action this year got off to a slow start with the ramp 's resurfacing being the prime objective . |
| 30 | When James asked his brother Nicholas for-a turn on his new bike , Nicholas got off and helped James on to the bike — but his mother made no comment , and James rode off without a word of thanks . |