Example sentences of "set off to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you for the silk , glad you were able to wrest it from the Governor before he set off to Lepcis Magna with it . |
| 2 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 3 | At Chicago airport , I filled in a ‘ missing baggage ’ form and set off to my hotel , minus socks , tights , knickers and shoes , except for the ones I was wearing . |
| 4 | The most geologically interesting and romantically appealing of the three islands is Niuafo'ou , a sunken volcanic caldera set off to the west . |
| 5 | Undaunted the helicopter crew managed to recover the remaining survivors in very difficult conditions , and will all four survivors aboard the helicopter the remaining tow line was cut and the lifeboat set off to the north east to return to her station . |
| 6 | With British pop music once again in the ascendant , Richard Branson set off to America to sell Virgin artists , with an optimism that almost banished the memory of his company 's disastrous American adventure of two years before . |
| 7 | At last he turned north again , his dog still running at his heels , and set off to a village just outside London . |
| 8 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
| 9 | He swept Dalziel 's glass from under his nose and set off to the bar at the quick march . |
| 10 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 11 | Peony set off to the chemist urgently . |
| 12 | EIGHTEEN cattle specialists from , set off to Brittany in March , for a three-day study tour of the French dairy industry . |
| 13 | He subsequently decided to do penance for the deed , and set off to his foundation at Agaune . |
| 14 | This week Kevin Morris from Cheltenham set off to be the 424th and the very first to do it backstroke . |
| 15 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |