Example sentences of "we set off [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
2 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
3 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
4 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
5 | Soon after breakfast we set off into the jungle . |
6 | I had acquired and learned to drive an old Hillman during the summer and , piling two tired and travel-sick children into the back with our parcels , we set off into the night . |
7 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
8 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
9 | We set off in the sunshine and quickly reached Snake Pass |