Example sentences of "we set off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress . |
| 4 | We set off through the lovely village of Stonethwaite and up the steep woodland path towards Great Crag . |
| 5 | So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |