Example sentences of "we [vb base] off [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soccer , sidecar racing and hill climbing in sport tonight , which we kick off with the fight for promotion to the first division . |
| 2 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 3 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
| 4 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 5 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 6 | Soon after breakfast we set off into the jungle . |
| 7 | I had acquired and learned to drive an old Hillman during the summer and , piling two tired and travel-sick children into the back with our parcels , we set off into the night . |
| 8 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
| 9 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 10 | We set off in the sunshine and quickly reached Snake Pass |
| 11 | And then o over to the bungalow , now she 'll either do that she 'll do the shopping before we go off to the bungalow , maybe we 'll pop down to Asda and |
| 12 | Once I get them up from their rest , we go off to the lake and feed the ducks or we go to friends . |
| 13 | As soon as we cast off from the boathouse Dennis started poling downstream like a maniac . |
| 14 | We start off with a set of a priori possibilities , namely the set of constructible patterns , and one known achievable state , namely the initial position . |
| 15 | Suppose we start off with the class of animals . |