Example sentences of "set off [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A path is supposed to keep close by the river ( but in reality stays above the treeline ) so I set off up quite a marked track , which very soon petered out . |
| 2 | Plan B meant no plan , however , and having none we were free to react to whims , needing no more than this first glimpse for the wheels to set themselves in motion as we set off down for tea . |
| 3 | Tony finished his work and we set off back towards the sea . |
| 4 | They set off back to Nettles . |
| 5 | He closed the gate and they set off back down the dirt track towards the cottage . |
| 6 | I set off back to the hospital — not in the best of tempers after a foul drive in filthy weather — and it was on the way home , as the wet lamps marched towards me , that it happened . |
| 7 | As we set off back to London , Toby opened his parcel . |
| 8 | ‘ Before we set off back ? |
| 9 | We tried to calm her as we set off back to the hospital . |
| 10 | An hour later we set off back for lunch , planning to bring back Penny in the evening when we 'd have another go with the rods and , of course , lift the nets . |
| 11 | Duncan got behind the Golf and pushed it to prove it would move , then set off back up the slope to get the truck . |
| 12 | Nutty discussed the problem one night with Biddy after the others had set off back to the factory . |
| 13 | It was getting late when , prompted by the thought of having to start work next morning , she paid her bill and reluctantly set off back to the hotel . |
| 14 | Moral victory there for Lawrence who very smartly , it 's good to see , oldies pull through , turns on his heels and sets off back again in search of his mark . |
| 15 | He 's there now , a little and Tufnell aborts his approach , gets up to the and dries his hands in the dust of the foot holes and sets off back to his mark . |
| 16 | A fifty-pound bomb , planted in his fishing boat , exploded as he set off out of the little harbour of Mullaghmore to inspect lobster pots . |
| 17 | Meredith backed out slowly to avoid other shoppers making for their cars with their overladen squeaky trolleys and set off out of town . |
| 18 | Philip set off back up the field towards the road . |
| 19 | And thus it was that when the day shift set off back to the Barracks that evening , Jackie Tiptoe remained behind , suspended from the ceiling like a crooked spider snarled up in its own web . |
| 20 | Then he got off and set off back towards Slough . |
| 21 | After creating the maximum of confusion , they piled into the Lancia and set off back along the road for their rendezvous with the LRDG , accompanied by an Italian whom they had taken prisoner after he had foolishly asked Lewes for a light while the latter was placing a bomb on his truck . |
| 22 | The waiter gave the slightest of bows , turned and set off back to the café . |
| 23 | They took some photographs , left a record of their ascent in a sealed tin in a cairn , and set off back down again . |
| 24 | When challenged by the head gardener the Americans pretended to be a press gang , which was sufficient to set ‘ all the stout young fellows ’ on the estate running off to the town for safety , but he also informed them that their intended victim was taking the waters at Buxton , and Jones set off back to his boat , until the two officers with him pointed out that , having left Whitehaven empty-handed , the crew should at least be allowed to loot the house . |
| 25 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 26 | When I opened my eyes , it had got colder , so I stood up , brushed off my blazer and set off back to the Gendarmerie . |
| 27 | We packed up all our kit again and set off back to Orange , across the frozen landscape of southern France , which was having one of the coldest winters in living memory . |
| 28 | Then they lifted the wide metal pans of washing on to their heads and set off back to their villages , erect along white lanes , their clothes a bright flash of colour in the green landscape . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll be as quick as I can , ’ he said to Bernice and set off back down the passageway with Rosheen . |
| 30 | Then she set off back to the library . |