Example sentences of "[adv] set off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 2 | And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break ! |
| 3 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 4 | Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday . |
| 5 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 6 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 7 | She extracted him determinedly and set him down on his feet , whereupon he wobbled perilously backwards and forwards , then set off at a tremendous pace across the courtyard , with his mother following , calling apologies back to Caroline as she disappeared from view . |
| 8 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |
| 9 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 10 | The gang told the woman they were heading towards Widnes , and they then set off in a blue car . |
| 11 | He hitch-hikes to San Francisco , lives briefly in a commune , and then sets off on a journey with two of its members , Lockett and Meridith . |
| 12 | Sir Roy Strong stumbles off the block with his opening sentence ‘ The portrait was a child of the renaissance ’ , which seems to have forgotten about classical antiquity , but then sets off on a thought-provoking and terse survey of themes and ideas throughout the three centuries covered by the book . |