Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] set off " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR people were killed and 17 injured when a gang of blacks set off hand grenades and sprayed a South African golf club with bullets . |
| 2 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 3 | Hollywood was the biggest carnival he had ever seen and he was like a box of fireworks set off all at once . |
| 4 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 5 | It is a place of special pilgrimage , and after a hearty lunch our party of pilgrims set off en masse to visit it . |
| 6 | A cautious opening in New York produced a further round of price-cutting in the afternoon and , with investors setting off early for the Easter break , the Footsie drifted in to a 2638.6 point close , down 1.6 on the day . |