Example sentences of "he set off " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so he sets off on foot , aiming nowhere . |
| 2 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 3 | It is a three-day journey to the land of Moriah , yet he cuts the wood for Isaac 's funeral pyre before he sets off , and takes it all the way with him . |
| 4 | But if the evening is free of specific engagements , he sets off on a well-worn route by 8.30 or 9 pm . |
| 5 | When even the milkmen and the postmen are not on the streets , he sets off for his daily three hour run , then swims for an hour before finally starting his day 's work as a leather goods salesman . |
| 6 | Quick thinking on the part of the father will soon have him sprinting after the runaway , and similarly quick thinking on the part of the camera operator will result in a cut from the distant child to one of the rescuer as he sets off . |
| 7 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 8 | With a helping hand from Sister Jacqui Littlewood , he sets off on a ‘ police ’ trolley bike for a minor op . |
| 9 | but only for a second as he sets off |
| 10 | He sets off after the brothers , succeeds in imitating Haimet , and relieves Barat of his burden . |
| 11 | Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences . |
| 12 | See I hoped wi David to ring me before half past three before he sets off , and he has n't done yet . |
| 13 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 14 | The smile disappeared , his head fell and , as he set off to catch up with his children and dog who were racing ahead . |
| 15 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 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 | Thank you for the silk , glad you were able to wrest it from the Governor before he set off to Lepcis Magna with it . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know what 's got into you , May , ’ he shouted , shaking his fist in the air as he set off in pursuit . |
| 19 | Reminding himself that there was nothing to fear he set off , past the loose boxes with their heaps of shabby treasure . |
| 20 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 21 | ‘ It does n't look anything like it does on TV , ’ said Craig Parry 's caddy as he set off with his man and Wayne Grady down the 10th in practice . |
| 22 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
| 23 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 24 | In 1867 he set off again , this time for Vietnam , and from there to Hong Kong . |
| 25 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |
| 26 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 27 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 28 | He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo . |
| 29 | Rushing off across the moors he set off in pursuit of Tamara . |
| 30 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |