Example sentences of "got off [prep] the [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 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
| 9 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 10 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 11 | The European champions got off to the best possible start when the full-back Graeme Rutjes headed them into the lead after 12 minutes . |
| 12 | Abingdon got off to the best possible start when the live wire , Liam Herbert latched on to a ball in the penalty area , only to be brought down by Egham keeper , Paul Allis in the second minute . |
| 13 | The Israeli-Syrian track got off to the fastest start last year , when the new Rabin government promised to trade at least some of the Golan Heights for peace . |
| 14 | ALLAN Lamb 's day got off to the worst possible start as flooding in London forced a quick change of travel plans . |
| 15 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |
| 16 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |