Example sentences of "get [noun pl] off to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 2 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 3 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 4 | Following a brief chat with my fellow editorial staffers concerning such unimportant matters as choosing a writer or an illustrator appropriate to the piece , I will go to see Brian , our in-house number-cruncher and say something like , ‘ Hello Brian , ’ ( I always like to get meetings off to an informal and uncontroversial start ) ‘ I 'd just like to discuss next week 's cover story . ’ |
| 5 | It would get things off to a good start . |
| 6 | I thought it would get things off to a good start . ’ |