Example sentences of "[verb] off on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of London 's top match teams head off on a magic mystery tour this Sunday with the historic London AA Shield as their goal . |
| 2 | The crowds who gathered on Alexanderplatz and then moved off on a winding trail through East Berlin were in any case convinced he was their man . |
| 3 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 4 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 5 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 6 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 10 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 13 | Small wonder , then , that a lot of resentment and guilt rub off on the social worker himself or herself ; and that , when opportunity arises for public shouts of , " No better than we are ! " , it may be seized upon with a fine disregard for logic in expiation of sins which might be regarded in others as excusable . |
| 14 | As he was all poshed up in his best uniform , ready to go off on a 48-hour pass , he was not best pleased at this turn of events . |
| 15 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 16 | ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction . |
| 17 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 18 | ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 20 | ‘ I feel dressed to sail off on a luxury cruise . ’ |
| 21 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 22 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 23 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 24 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
| 25 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |
| 26 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 27 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 28 | After the naming of an HST Power Car ‘ Great Western at Paddington by Brian Scott , Director InterCity Great Western , and Peter Noble , the Great , Great Grandson of I.K. Brunel , a 140-strong VIP party of press , businesspeople and InterCity staff set off on a special non-stop run to Devon , covering the 193 miles to Newton Abbot in two hours 33.5 minutes — an average speed of 92 miles per hour ! |
| 29 | In Siam , Thomson teamed up with a journalist called Kennedy , and , together with a large entourage , they set off on a perilous journey to Cambodia . |
| 30 | 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 . |