Example sentences of "have [verb] off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | PETER Kennedy 's tongue-in-cheek shot at his latest creation , ‘ The Widow or Bust ’ , has come off with a bang at the Arts Theatre this week . |
| 2 | Many a Jewish courtship has got off to a somewhat greasy start over pickled brisket sandwiches and chips on fine evenings outside the deli . |
| 3 | What has been designated Industry Year has got off to a predictably silly start . |
| 4 | TV Quick , the German interloper in the British TV listings market , has got off to a flying start . |
| 5 | The second half has got off to a good start , with slightly higher orders for October . |
| 6 | I feel the Trust has got off to a very good start under your directorship . |
| 7 | Oxford University 's Matthew Syed has got off to a flying start in the Olympic Qualifying tournament in Italy , winning both his opening matches . |
| 8 | THE Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition has got off to a tremendous start with 54 wins coming from the first 72 fixtures . |
| 9 | PETER Scudamore 's neighbour Nigel Twiston-Davies has got off to a tremendous start this season with 24 wins in the bag already . |
| 10 | The Grand National meeting at Aintree has got off to a tragic start with two horses dying in the first race . |
| 11 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 12 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 13 | His ambulance service has taken off in a big way . |
| 14 | The club 's Jarrow born manager Jimmy Mullen ( Backtrack , December 10 ) was obliged to send a deputy to last Friday 's manager of the year awards the entire team has shoved off on a sponsored fortnight in Bermuda . |
| 15 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 16 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
| 17 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 18 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
| 19 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 20 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 21 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 22 | Given that the evening was meant to be so special , so significant , they could hardly have got off to a worse start , but Jessica refused to compromise . |
| 23 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 24 | Something must have come up , and she must have gone off in a hurry . |
| 25 | In this way , what might have started off as a cyclical deficit will soon become a structural deficit unless action is taken to bring borrowing down . |
| 26 | The universe would have started off with a period of exponential or " inflationary " expansion in which it would have increased its size by a very large factor . |
| 27 | And if I had to play them today , I 'd have to get off in a room with a record player , probably for a couple of hours and learn them . ’ |
| 28 | The School appears to have got off to a flourishing start . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the company 's entry into the largely unchartered bagged sector with Strollers seems to have got off to a fair start . |
| 30 | In general , DATEC courses seem to have got off to a reasonable start in the art colleges . |