Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] [art] wrong [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 5 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | That mathematicians had a very very hard time and they got a lot of things wrong they went off down the wrong track for hundreds of years before |
| 10 | Suddenly , one of the rockets shot off in the wrong direction , dived on the crowd and exploded among them . |
| 11 | He also sped off across Dartmoor in search of Tamara but , totally confused , after running wildly around , set off in the wrong direction , heading north between gently wooded hills to reach the Atlantic . |