Example sentences of "set off [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June . |
| 2 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 3 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 4 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 5 | I am writing this quickly on my return ( Tuesday evening ) from London , prior to setting off for the European rural conference in Scotland . |
| 6 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 7 | So very early one morning when the wind was a moderate westerly and made northward progress easy , Creggan set off over the great industrial cities to find the high ground beyond them that he sensed would be there . |
| 8 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |
| 9 | The evening was lovely , the air warm , transparent and luminous , and the lights of the complex made the white walls of the villas glow , set off against the tall graceful cypresses . |