Example sentences of "men set off " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the night of the attack , Jordan and Corporal Bourmont each with four men set off to raid the two airfields at Derna . |
| 2 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 3 | The men set off in fear and trepidation , singing and whistling to bolster their courage . |
| 4 | The three men set off again in the Sunbeam , touring the stores of Ruislip and Eastcote , making purchases with their newly acquired Barclaycard . |
| 5 | The two men set off down a narrow path which traversed the slope diagonally . |
| 6 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |