Example sentences of "get off to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start . |
| 2 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
| 3 | Shell , who succeeded Mike Shanahan last week , got off to a winning start thanks to the safety , Eddie Anderson , who returned an interception 87 yards for the winning touchdown early in the fourth quarter . |
| 4 | It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start , politically speaking , in 1921–2 . |
| 5 | Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January . |
| 6 | Botham 's 57 was top score , so at least his captaincy got off to a bright start . |
| 7 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The election campaign also got off to a poor start . |
| 12 | Because of the condition of the ramp , action this year got off to a slow start with the ramp 's resurfacing being the prime objective . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Shops there got off to a bad start in the weeks after currency union , many demanding cut-throat prices . |
| 16 | The Premier League got off to a wonderful start as far as its detractors were concerned when Arsenal lost 4-2 at home to Norwich , a side still stubbornly refusing to go back to what is considered their rightful place near the bottom of the League . |
| 17 | THE new trading account got off to a lousy start with further bloodshed on the back of last week 's Autumn statement . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually . |
| 19 | Earlier Edberg 's attempt to win back his World No 1 ranking got off to a stuttering start when he beat Czecholslovakia 's Korda , 6–3 , 7–6 ( 11–9 ) . |
| 20 | STEFAN EDBERG 'S bid to regain his World No 1 ranking got off to a stuttering start in the IBM ATP World Championships in Frankfurt last night , writes Giles Smith . |
| 21 | She got off to a bad start on the streets as the child of Bruno Bonney , convicted pimp , pusher , armed robber and bilko artist . |
| 22 | The West Country trainer and champion jockey Peter Scudamore got off to a flying start winning the first three races with odds-on shots Mohana , Slavi and Skipping Tim . |
| 23 | DES Walker 's Italian League career got off to a hair-raising start as Sampdoria drew 3-3 with Lazio . |
| 24 | At least London 's Notting Hill Carnival got off to a trouble-free start . |
| 25 | SOUTHPORT Railway Centre 's summer programme got off to a good start at Easter with a ‘ Four days of steam ’ event . |
| 26 | As expected Object World ‘ 92 got off to a dramatic and bitchy start with the opening panel session which , on the day , featured Paul Allchin , Microsoft Corp 's vice president for advanced products , Philippe Kahn , founder of Borland International Inc , Steve McKay , SunSoft Inc vice president for user environment software and Joe Guglielmi , head of Taligent Inc as the great and glorious warm-up act for NeXT Inc 's Steve Jobs who topped the bill . |
| 27 | Yale University 's $1.5 billion capital campaign got off to a spectacular start when philanthropist Paul Mellon donated gifts valued at more than $50 million . |
| 28 | The 1991 world 500 championship got off to a sensational start with the Japanese GP at Suzuka , where Schwantz led Doohan , Rainey and Kocinski across the line . |
| 29 | The hotel got off to a good start . |
| 30 | Things got off to a bad start anyway when my Reliant Robin was crushed by Pahdra Singh 's Bentley as we jostled for a parking place . |