Example sentences of "off on [art] wrong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully . |
| 2 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 3 | Many women , through no fault of their own , appear to start off on the wrong foot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I 'd expected it ; he would n't want to start off on the wrong foot . ’ |
| 9 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 12 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 13 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 14 | Ziegler was now cut off on the wrong side of the Brussels road , but that predicament did not worry him . |
| 15 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |