Example sentences of "it off the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switchboard was formed in 1974 out of an alliance between the old Gay Liberation Front office collective , who donated the office , and Gay News , who donated the publicity and energy to get it off the ground . |
| 2 | The whole assembly was then placed on two concrete blocks ( one at each end ) to raise it off the ground . |
| 3 | But how did the , what was puzzling a lot of people how did he manage to get it off the ground and into his pocket . |
| 4 | Only time will tell , but it will require a number of dedicated members to get it off the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ Doing what I can to help it off the ground . ’ |
| 6 | What better way to get it off the ground than by leading an armada of rafts up river , parading before the assembled crowd of onlookers ? |
| 7 | I suspect that , if someone now discovered a substance as addictive and harmful as tobacco , even this Government would be highly unlikely to license it to get it off the ground as a marketable product . |
| 8 | ‘ A big thing ; Edwin was largely responsible for getting it off the ground . |
| 9 | I mean I 'm not , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not one of these formal you know want 's to everything but the idea of this is that we go we get it off the ground and then the management committee take over and run it , it will hopefully have two parish representatives , wo n't be overcommitted by being you know constantly hectored and badgered by people saying this is your ground . |
| 10 | ‘ We hope to get it off the ground very shortly and it will be run in conjunction with the Women 's Hospital . ’ |
| 11 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 12 | idea to get it going and get it off the ground even if you you put your beer on at , well I just thought of couple Boddingtons put their they 're they 're gon na put their , they 're gon na put there 's at a pound a pint . |
| 13 | if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it . |