Example sentences of "get off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 2 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 6 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 9 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
| 10 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
| 11 | The latest version got off to a controversial start when it was decided to cast stunning French actress Juliette Binoche in this most English of dramas . |
| 12 | THE new trading account got off to a lousy start with further bloodshed on the back of last week 's Autumn statement . |
| 13 | East Grinstead got off to a great start with an 11th minute goal , but in spite of their pressure — they won ten penalty corners to Holywood 's none — they seldom troubled goalkeeper Kyle Thompson . |
| 14 | MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland got off to a great start in the Woolworths Young Athletes League , winning their Northern Premier match at the Don Valley Stadium , Sheffield . |
| 15 | In front of over 22,000 fans Town got off to a great start , taking the lead after 34 minutes , Duncan Sheerer the scorer . |
| 16 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 17 | Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start . |
| 18 | Through William Agnew 's painting , and the notice it received , the Building Fund ( Agnew 's brainchild ) got off to a splendid start , and Agnew 's energy and his business contacts throughout Glasgow soon saw the Fund grow quickly . |
| 19 | The election campaign also got off to a poor start . |
| 20 | Second half was better , though it got off to a poor start with Speed and MacAllister passing the ball away to Ipswich players . |
| 21 | In short , the event got off to a cracking start . |
| 22 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 23 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 24 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 25 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
| 26 | Wednesday , 28th August , 1839 , the first day of the Tournament , got off to a good start with a bright sun shining from a clear blue sky and the temperature high . |
| 27 | SOUTHPORT Railway Centre 's summer programme got off to a good start at Easter with a ‘ Four days of steam ’ event . |
| 28 | The hotel got off to a good start . |
| 29 | In Scotland , sales at Thins got off to a good start in December , became tougher , then ended with a gallop . |
| 30 | The team got off to a good start on the general knowledge round , they then had to answer questions connected with local councillors ' work . |