Example sentences of "set [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group of officers , cadets and badgers set off from Broad Street pushing their bed with 16-year-old Glyn Matthews inside dressed in bonnet and nappy . |
| 2 | Fiona and I set off from Fulham in our car at about 9 a.m . |
| 3 | They set off from Alexandra Palace for WWF 's fourth annual London to Cambridge Bike Ride — and it proved to be the most successful yet . |
| 4 | Set off from Nairobi by road through Kenyan countryside to the border at Namanga with a stop in Arusha for lunch . |
| 5 | The teams set off from Liverpool for Beaune in France on the sponsored run that will raise thousands of pounds for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , now nearing its target to fund four new hospital support Macmillan Nurses on Merseyside . |
| 6 | We set off from Amriyah on 13 March , and spent the night with 73 Squadron , as El Adem was unsafe due to the unfriendly attention it was receiving from enemy dive-bombers . |
| 7 | I became convinced then that there was a conspiracy and this was confirmed in no uncertain manner when later , A and B — what a pair of troupers they were — set off from John o' Groats bound for Land 's End with lorries full of rubbish . |
| 8 | They set off from Turnu Severin , on the River Danube near the Yugoslav border and pedal through some of the highest passes almost to the Moldavian border , in what was formerly the USSR , and on to the Negreni villages . |
| 9 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 10 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 11 | The balloons , which set off from Maine on the US East Coast , were moving last night towards Newfoundland . |
| 12 | They set out from Siwa in mid-May , travelling in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ in convoy with an LRDG patrol led by Robin Gurdon . |
| 13 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 14 | ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’ |
| 15 | That came about because one of the dancers had fallen ill just before they all set out from Cape Town . |
| 16 | We set out from Spean Bridge , where numerous coach parties enjoy real Highland hospitality in the Little Chef , before choosing from a rich selection of tartan travel rugs and heather-perfumed candles in the gift shop , and chugged our way up past Corriechoille farm . |
| 17 | A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday . |
| 18 | Peter Kessler , spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , said it was hoped the ten-truck convoy which set out from Belgrade on Sunday could now proceed to the village of Cerska , where some 25,000 Muslims are trapped . |