Example sentences of "set off [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 2 | So very early one morning when the wind was a moderate westerly and made northward progress easy , Creggan set off over the great industrial cities to find the high ground beyond them that he sensed would be there . |
| 3 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 4 | In the following year the Beaux-Arts style emerged at its most majestic in Washington , DC , containing some of the most powerful , overpowering indeed , spaces of any station , and set off in a great park-like setting . |
| 5 | The evening was lovely , the air warm , transparent and luminous , and the lights of the complex made the white walls of the villas glow , set off against the tall graceful cypresses . |
| 6 | Dressed as she was in a simple dark green dress , set off by a bright red scarf , she caused a momentary pause in several conversations . |