Example sentences of "set off from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiona and I set off from Fulham in our car at about 9 a.m . |
| 2 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 3 | A long ridge-walk requires an early start , and a companion and I set off from the hotel at 8.30 , toast crumbs still trembling on our lips , to attain the ridge by the first peak , Creag a' Mhaim . |
| 4 | The group of officers , cadets and badgers set off from Broad Street pushing their bed with 16-year-old Glyn Matthews inside dressed in bonnet and nappy . |
| 5 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 6 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
| 7 | We set off from Amriyah on 13 March , and spent the night with 73 Squadron , as El Adem was unsafe due to the unfriendly attention it was receiving from enemy dive-bombers . |
| 8 | The balloons , which set off from Maine on the US East Coast , were moving last night towards Newfoundland . |
| 9 | Set off from Nairobi by road through Kenyan countryside to the border at Namanga with a stop in Arusha for lunch . |
| 10 | They set off from the village of Arghuri on the morning of June 20th , in the year of Our Lord 1840 , accompanied only by their Kurdish guide . |
| 11 | They set off from Alexandra Palace for WWF 's fourth annual London to Cambridge Bike Ride — and it proved to be the most successful yet . |
| 12 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 13 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 14 | They set off from Turnu Severin , on the River Danube near the Yugoslav border and pedal through some of the highest passes almost to the Moldavian border , in what was formerly the USSR , and on to the Negreni villages . |
| 15 | I became convinced then that there was a conspiracy and this was confirmed in no uncertain manner when later , A and B — what a pair of troupers they were — set off from John o' Groats bound for Land 's End with lorries full of rubbish . |
| 16 | The teams set off from Liverpool for Beaune in France on the sponsored run that will raise thousands of pounds for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , now nearing its target to fund four new hospital support Macmillan Nurses on Merseyside . |