Example sentences of "get off on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 2 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 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 | And then Saturday , it meant they got off on the Sunday and the Monday , they got their long weekend you see , when they reached the Saturday . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 10 | Most years Keith really gets off on the famine . |
| 11 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 12 | I 've encountered Arena -reading Young Conservatives who get off on The Smiths and Sex Pistols : I knew a girl whose favourite group is The Jam but who claims to be apolitical and whose one great desire in life is a Mercedes . |
| 13 | Take a 79 , 24 or a 51A , B or C , bus going southwards and get off on the South Circular Road , Kilmainham . |
| 14 | The crowd really get off on the Kitchens ' distinctly '80s sound , whooping like only Americans can , and calling out for all the correct songs — and then it dawns on you . |
| 15 | Our songs , superficially , you might get off on the hook , but you can go further into the lyric . ’ |
| 16 | Did you get off on the energy of that fantastic place ? |
| 17 | Did you get off on the energy of that fantastic place ? |
| 18 | We must get off on the right foot . ’ |
| 19 | Try to get off on the right foot ? ’ |