Example sentences of "his [noun pl] set off " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her horror , his words set off a ripple of excitement within her , and she felt a betraying warmth flood her cheeks . |
| 2 | The glitter in his eyes set off a jangling alarm in her mind . |
| 3 | He was deadly serious , and the expression in his eyes set off her early warning system . |
| 4 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 5 | He and his friends set off right away across the sea . |