Example sentences of "setting off [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction .
32 Setting off around the corner after negotiating the flake on Valkyrie .
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