Example sentences of "we set off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 2 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 3 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 4 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 5 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 6 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 7 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 8 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 9 | We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress . |
| 10 | We set off through the lovely village of Stonethwaite and up the steep woodland path towards Great Crag . |
| 11 | So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June . |
| 12 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 13 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 14 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |