Example sentences of "[vb pp] off on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 2 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 3 | MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest . |
| 4 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
| 5 | I can recall on one occasion the league programme being snowed off on the fifth Saturday in March . |
| 6 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 7 | The bus he boarded headed off on the 2 hour trip to Nagasaki , where he was to visit a Dutch theme park which commemorates early Dutch trading links with feudal Japan . |
| 8 | Beating off an ambush by ‘ eighty infidels on foot ’ , he and his train headed off on the last stage of his journey through the burning plains of the Punjab towards the mighty Indian capital and the palace of the Sultan . |