Example sentences of "[pers pn] set off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey .
2 But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail .
3 Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn .
4 It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west .
5 But once you have unfolded an ordnance survey map and made the cheese and pickle sandwiches , it 's hard to change your mind , and so on a hot June day I set off up the zig-zagging tourist path from Glen Nevis at ten o'clock in the morning .
6 She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house .
7 ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us .
8 It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot .
9 What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill .
10 You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love …
11 She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there .
12 With no further words , she set off across the wide lawns of the De Belving gardens , scattering a couple of sleepy peacocks as she went .
13 She set off across the rough turf towards the low hill brow ahead .
14 Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ .
15 Every male from the neighbouring estancias , except Luke , who was off moving the cattle , seemed to be gathered round the paddock to watch her as she set off in the milky , misty morning light towards a row of poplar trees .
16 We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp .
17 So we set off for a last look round .
18 FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour .
19 Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day .
20 Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope .
21 After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list .
22 We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting .
23 Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse .
24 We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress .
25 We set off through the lovely village of Stonethwaite and up the steep woodland path towards Great Crag .
26 So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June .
27 We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters .
28 but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages
29 She had no idea why she suddenly looked back , as they set off across the level turf that stretched above that mysterious underworld of brick-built labyrinths .
30 The lights of Soufrière twinkled a long way off as they set off into the black , and headed north for Marigot Bay .
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