Example sentences of "[verb] set off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , if you want to set off with road map and cheque book , then get the new editions of the Factory Shop Guide . |
| 2 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 3 | Little did Jean realise it , as she prepared to set off to church at Caterham , Surrey , for the funeral of her lifetime partner and soulmate , but the first clue to his free-spending secret life had plopped through the letterbox that very morning . |
| 4 | She and Ella had plenty of time before they needed to set off for school . |
| 5 | As I am preparing to set off from Oxford a copy of a fax arrives from the production office . |
| 6 | The reconstruction retraced the couple 's movements from 7pm when they are thought to have set off from Mrs Arnold 's flat in Shernhall Road , Walthamstow , east London . |
| 7 | He and Charlotte had grown tired of the undertaking business and had set off to London to start a new life — with all the money from Mr Sowerberry 's shop in their pockets . |
| 8 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 9 | William had set off on Saturday to walk between Ben Dearg and Ben Alligin Hills . |
| 10 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 11 | The Oxfordshire volunteers had set off from Split inland . |
| 12 | Mrs Chandler , 47 , had set off from Shap in Cumbria on August 25 . |
| 13 | THIS is a bit hard to understand but some audacious young men from Newcastle have set off for Europe in the company of Ermentrude the Cow from The Magic Roundabout . |