Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] set off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a good night 's sleep , we arrived at breakfast with about 15 minutes to spare , and eventually set off for Hungary where we were due to stay the night with a Weymouth girl married to a Hungarian and is living in Gyor . |
| 2 | Old Nebbins felt hurt and slowly set off towards . |
| 3 | His work done , Nation collected his fee and promptly set off in search of other work , as did any other jobbing writer . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 7 | With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home . |
| 8 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Squadron had originated as the idea of a New Englander , Norman Prince , who had learned to fly in Massachusetts in 1914 , and then set off to France with the intention of forming a unit for American volunteer flyers . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had no intention of staying by Hitler 's side in his Berlin bunker and instead set off for his own headquarters . |
| 17 | I had only a vague idea where the circle was , but nevertheless set off towards it . |
| 18 | Two anglers from London arrived at the draw but immediately set off for home again fearful of travelling conditions . |
| 19 | 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 . |