Example sentences of "set off [det] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah you you you sort of set off several legends in your lifetime Adam erm le let's just er either destroy or establish one legend .
2 This set off another heated debate .
3 If the thought comes into my head that a careless remark has just hurt a friend or made an enemy , ‘ Be expression in his apparently untroubled face set off this vague disquiet .
4 So Ken set off this summer to walk from St. Bees Head in Cumbria and finished at Robin Hood Bay .
5 The expedition from the Macintyre organisation in Milton Keynes set off this week … their challenge is our Friday Feature
6 And is a more textbook fear involved : does the image of pulsing blubber set off some terror of being transported back to the womb ? )
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