Example sentences of "[adv] set off " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 2 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 3 | I 'd better set off , or I wo n't be there at the station and he 'll think I 'm not coming . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'd better set off now before it gets dark , ’ he told the driver . |
| 5 | When the biggest set of the day came through , well over thirty feet but still well-formed , Doerner , Foo , and Bradshaw all set off in pursuit . |
| 6 | On the morning of the ceremony , Olivia , the mali , Balvinder Singh and myself all set off to Village Shahpur Jat in Mr Singh 's taxi . |
| 7 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 8 | He got the pleasure of farming , and the losses were merely set off against er |
| 9 | The blue top and bottom trims not only set off the looks of the tank , but also obviate the need for a layer of polystyrene under the tank . |
| 10 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 11 | I 'd just set off wherever the mood took me . |
| 12 | Smoking a cigarette will not normally set off a smoke alarm . |
| 13 | ‘ If you 'd prefer to not risk my efforts at the barbecue I can easily set off for home right now . |
| 14 | It is hard to explain my feelings once I did finally set off . |
| 15 | Very quickly , however , the three young people began to exert over one another the complex mutual attraction which remained characteristic of their relationship , and more than three weeks passed before Coleridge finally set off on the road back to Stowey . |
| 16 | After his experiences photographing there , he found it very difficult to continue the rather dull life of a colonial portraitist , and soon set off again for the strange and exotic land of Siam . |
| 17 | She had dutifully done so and together they had selected an array of clothes in the deep greens and blues , the rich wine shades that Thomas said best set off her porcelain skin and burnished hair . |
| 18 | Irina had already set off carrying two suitcases . |
| 19 | Of course , maybe I 've missed him entirely and he 's already set off on whatever trip Mr Archer seemed to know about . |
| 20 | Stephen had already set off down the path . |
| 21 | I had only a vague idea where the circle was , but nevertheless set off towards it . |
| 22 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 23 | I do n't think it would 've bothered us when it was spitting and spotting if we 'd actually been out there , would it , it 's just setting off in it . |
| 24 | She soon set off for Leicester , where she sobbed ‘ hideously ’ and was put in prison with two unlucky fellow-pilgrims . |
| 25 | That always made her reach , in agitation , for something else , so that when they finally set off she was already exhausted and Paul was angry and full of contempt . |
| 26 | Coleridge had spent three weeks in Oxford before , on 5 July 1794 , he finally set off on his Welsh expedition , promising Southey that he would rejoin him later to make further plans for settling in America . |
| 27 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 28 | The Range Rover was crammed with so much food as they finally set off for Brides Haven that Leonora expressed doubt that the boat would carry it all . |
| 29 | After a time the circuit should settle down to a state in which the usual combinations of inputs to the cell are relatively ineffective , while any unusual combination can still set off a strong response . |
| 30 | The party crammed back into the lorry and quickly set off again . |