Example sentences of "set off [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |
| 2 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |
| 3 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |
| 4 | The hardest job of the ‘ Northern Lights Festival ’ on Radio 4 fell to Kaleidoscope in Greenland , where Paul Allen set off to examine the arts scene , heaven help him . |
| 5 | He subsequently set off to explore the county on foot as far as Lands End and his notes show that his book , had it been written , would have contained some far-fetched fantasies — as well as straight inaccuracies . |
| 6 | She finished her coffee , and set off to explore the town . |
| 7 | Joanna 's depression vanished immediately and she set off to do the shopping in high spirits while Sophie , equally elated , went to the surgery . |
| 8 | But many more were needed , and in early January Coleridge set off to publicize the new venture on a tour of the Midlands , recording an eventful journey with comic gusto both in his letters at the time and almost twenty years later in the Biographia Literaria . |
| 9 | So the arrival at the Grand Quay of that famous pirate ship the ‘ Black Pig ’ caused no excitement , and Captain Pugwash , the Mate , Barnabas , Willy and Tom the cabin boy attracted little attention as they stepped down the gangplank and set off to view the sights of the town . |
| 10 | She set off to walk a mile to the mountain cable car on Wednesday . |
| 11 | He carried on past and found a place to pull off the road , and then he collected together his flashlight and a roll of tools and set off to walk the short distance back . |
| 12 | Shelley made up her mind , and set off to walk the quarter of a mile . |
| 13 | The following morning our team of John , a theology student from a Jesuit College who talked like Derek Nimmo in All Gas and Gaiters , James , a British Telecom engineer ( useful ) and I , set off to follow a long and complicated trail across Colchester . |
| 14 | We tricoteuses of the press who set off to crisscross the country with Mr Major in his campaign plane and bus , many packed lunches ago , accompanied a diffident , decent figure presented in a soft-sell promotional film as a man with whom ordinary people could identify . |
| 15 | Yet when news reached Jedburgh that Bothwell was lying seriously wounded in his Liddesdale stronghold of Hermitage , Mary set off to ride the 50 miles there and back in a day . |
| 16 | She set off to find a lift . |
| 17 | Pausing a moment to work out the best route , the Doctor set off to find a stair leading down . |
| 18 | Charlotte 's companion said with quickening interest , and set off to have a closer look . |
| 19 | Armed with a lamp , Dyson set off to check the connection . |
| 20 | He immediately set off to hand the purse and its contents into the Clansford club office and there he found a distressed but very grateful Mrs Edie Moon ( 82 ) , Clansford 's oldest supporter . |
| 21 | He ordered Sergeant Yates to take the bulk of the party to the rendezvous , while he himself set off to reconnoitre the escarpment with Sergeant Tait . |
| 22 | ‘ She said she thought Dick and Joy had forgotten they were to pick her up , so she set off to catch the bus . ’ |