Example sentences of "off on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month I expressed the hope that , as the autocratic system of government in South Africa is replaced by a more democratic one , this might rub off on the new rugby bureaucracy . |
| 2 | All UI members — including SunSoft — will have to sign off on the new document , now in draft form , before it can be published . |
| 3 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 4 | The other had turned and was waiting for the Genoese , standing off on the landward side with her crossbowmen and hackbutters lining her port rail , fore and aft . |
| 5 | Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park . |
| 6 | I quoted out loud , light-headed with triumph as I opened a tin of lunch before setting off on the thirty-mile drive to the hospital . |
| 7 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 8 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 9 | I can recall on one occasion the league programme being snowed off on the fifth Saturday in March . |
| 10 | Several hours later Sten found a warden who sailed out to the island and dropped the guys off on the nearest bit of mainland . |
| 11 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 14 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 15 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 16 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 17 | Try to get off on the right foot ? ’ |
| 18 | You can never be too early starting your kids off on the right foot — in fact , it 's essential |
| 19 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 20 | We must get off on the right foot . ’ |
| 21 | Tomorrow would be another day , and she would make damned sure that she would get it off on the right footing . |
| 22 | Driving off on the first day was Sandy Lyle … as a winner of the British Open and American Masters he 's got to be one of the best judges of courses around |
| 23 | As the sun sinks , the young bats stream from the cave-mouth like smoke and set off on the first stage of their long journey south . |
| 24 | ‘ I am sure it was my accounts of my experiences which set her off on the same route . |
| 25 | The following day she caught an early train from King 's Cross station and set off on the two-hundred-mile journey north . |
| 26 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 27 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 28 | Many women , through no fault of their own , appear to start off on the wrong foot . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |