Example sentences of "[pron] set off [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 2 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 3 | As a birthday celebration some time ago , I set off with a companion to conquer the two more accessible ones , Sgurr Thuilm and Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 4 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 5 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 6 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 7 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 8 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |
| 9 | A few chapters of Music , Mind , and Brain are stimulating and produce the right sort of sparks ; but others jar either because they are couched in long-winded jargon , or because they set off with a title and intent , which lead one to expect something new in the way of results , but then degenerate into vague speculations . |
| 10 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 11 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 12 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 13 | TWO boozy pals were caught by astonished police after they set off in a car — with BOTH of them driving . |
| 14 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |
| 15 | Immediately afterwards , he set off on a journey into Dorset , determined to repay Wordsworth 's visit of two months earlier . |
| 16 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 17 | Usually in May we hire a coach and about 50 of us set off on a 3-day , 2-night hotel stay . |