Example sentences of "setting off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , you need a few minutes to settle comfortably before setting off , but if you have to rush you can usually blame yourself for not getting in before he cable or towplane arrives . |
| 2 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 3 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 4 | The Pope , a conservative whose grip on the reins of power has never been firmer , is setting off on a tour of the Far East on Friday . |
| 5 | Edward Browning , a night club bouncer , called at his father 's home shortly before setting off for Scotland . |
| 6 | Security will be tight : Peru 's Maoist guerrillas , Sendero Luminoso , expressed their disapproval of the whole business by setting off a number of bombs in Ica last week and murdering the wife of the rector of the local university . |
| 7 | Soon after setting off we came to a forested valley along the banks of the Gwaun . |
| 8 | That worried us as there were several great skuas working the sky above the bog , and we spent some time waiting for the goose to return before setting off again . |
| 9 | Before setting off they have to be briefed by the Intelligence Section on their tasks for the day , and the patrol leader has to report to the Operations Room for a study of his route . |
| 10 | It 's dependent on the purposeful pulling of triggers and setting off of bombs . |
| 11 | Scunthorpe survived largely because Futcher thought he was offside when he was n't and Deary was when he should n't have been — his 81st-minute goal being disallowed to the despair of the home fans and the delight of those setting off across the black hills . |
| 12 | ‘ Come for us at home , ’ was what George had said , ‘ we 're setting off from there . |
| 13 | But they still hold substantial portfolios of international shares and the fear is that they could attempt to sell these , setting off a chain reaction in other financial markets . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When the engine is hot and if I stop the engine for up to half an hour I get a smell of petrol in the cab and upon setting off again I experience severe fuel starvation causing the engine to stop unless travelling fast on an open road . |
| 16 | I am setting off next Wednesday … |
| 17 | He outlined his idea for a movie plot , which was basically the story of two Californian friends who decide to make a once-and-for-all fortune by selling a consignment of cocaine , and then setting off across the country for a marijuana-cum-motorbikes adventure . |
| 18 | Roland went to Bloomsbury on his bicycle next morning , setting off very early when Val was still applying her workaday face . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ said Roland , setting off nevertheless , his town shoes thickening with mud as he climbed , his hair ruffling . |
| 20 | All of this was contained within long classical façades , with corner pavilions setting off all four sides . |
| 21 | Competitors started at staggered times but with the leaders all setting off within three minutes of each other , the competition benefited from an added edge . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Why is it important to vent the fuel tank before setting off on a boat dive ? |
| 24 | Within moments of setting off , she was lost from view , swallowed up in the white mist . |
| 25 | ‘ But not for me , ’ she added sadly to herself , setting off homeward through the twilight . |
| 26 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 27 | Sandison waited for one minute and then also left , setting off in the opposite direction from Maidstone . |
| 28 | Before setting off , when all had been packed away , I unwittingly slipped my clip-on sun-glasses into my back pocket . |
| 29 | Setting Off |
| 30 | Fig13 Just before setting off : the rig is pulled across the body towards the wind until it feels balanced . |