Example sentences of "[adv] set off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very quickly , however , the three young people began to exert over one another the complex mutual attraction which remained characteristic of their relationship , and more than three weeks passed before Coleridge finally set off on the road back to Stowey . |
| 2 | Stephen had already set off down the path . |
| 3 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 4 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 5 | Kallicharran , assuming that the entertainment had been concluded for the day , also set off for the dressing-room . |
| 6 | The London English sequence here is clearly set off from the rest of Brenda 's turn by its function , which is to elicit a " lost " piece of information . |
| 7 | Did she then grow impatient , and concerned at the pasty cooling in the wickerwork basket , lighted a candle and bravely set off up the tunnel determined that her daddy would have a hot meal ? |
| 8 | On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | Champion let Aldaniti take the last fence in his own time and then set off up the run-in which the jockey later described as ‘ the loneliest place in the world ’ . |
| 10 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
| 11 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
| 12 | There is a coincidence with Osbern 's story , and it may be that Swegen was present in England when tribute was paid in 1012 , and then set off for the Irish Sea ( thus repeating the possible pattern of 994 – 5 ) only to be shipwrecked , perhaps off the Welsh coast . |
| 13 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 14 | ‘ By making your legs do the work instead of your poor over-used mouth , ’ he returned drily , then set off across the field before she could reply . |
| 15 | He examined the gallery , then set off along the left-hand corridor where the men 's bedrooms were . |
| 16 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 17 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |
| 18 | Thus each evening Silene bathes her white body in the ocean , then sets off across the skies to caress her sleeping lover . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |
| 21 | Next morning we again set off beside the river . |
| 22 | Despite the wear and tear of many a performance it 's still a cracking guitar , with its classically timeless shape beautifully set off by the tobacco-yellowed binding . |
| 23 | This road takes you through what I would say was the most savage landscape you are likely to see in the Pyrenees without actually setting off into the mountains on foot , a valley which has rocks where other valleys have trees . |