Example sentences of "and set off [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | We finished serving lunch and coffee and cleared up , and as soon as I decently could I left the kitchen and set off forward up the train . |
2 | Then they form up into single file with as many as fifty in a column , each animal touching the rear end of the one ahead with its stick-like antennae , and set off briskly across the sandy sea floor , heading for deeper water . |
3 | The guide nodded and set off briskly across the floor . |
4 | She turned from the shop-window and set off briskly down the street towards the Stefansplatz , Karelius striding alongside . |
5 | Fearon dragged it on over his sweater , tugged a disreputable flat cap over his wet hair and set off briskly towards the yard . |
6 | At the Grand , David Swan fastened his amended photopass to his jacket and set off briskly towards the conference centre some two hundred yards away . |
7 | Next day they left Seton to his problems and set off northwards up the coast for Dunbar , thirty miles . |
8 | With a half-shudder , she left the lower bowel and set off gingerly along the rather treacherous surface of the greater intestine which coiled before her — a tunnel she was n't too sure she saw the light at the end of . |
9 | With that he relaxed his grasp and set off alone in the direction of the Chelonians . |