Example sentences of "had set off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 2 | Even when , after several hours , the majority of emigrants had set off , a group of young men wearing track suits remained in darkness at the back of the embassy , helping the most recent arrivals over the railings . |
| 3 | Many West Berlin pensioners , who had set off to visit relatives and friends in the East , looked scared . |
| 4 | The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific . |
| 5 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 6 | Once they had set off , Mr Smith and Mr Jones , for all their being well into their middle years , proceeded to behave like schoolboys , singing coarse songs and making even coarser comments on all they saw from the window . |
| 7 | Their party had set off to raid the Derna and Martuba airfields in a convoy of four German vehicles driven by SIG men with the French hidden in the back under tarpaulins . |
| 8 | Nutty discussed the problem one night with Biddy after the others had set off back to the factory . |
| 9 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 10 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |
| 11 | Each time I have a pint in the pub at Rhydd Ddu I recall a snowy Easter night spent waiting for mates who had set off earlier to tackle the Snowdon Horseshoe . |
| 12 | Before Father Kendrick had set off for his new city parish — racial mix , boys ' club , mothers ' union , young people 's fellowship ; the proper challenge for a mildly high-church , ambitious young priest with one eye on a mitre — he had had a brief word about Beryl McBride . |
| 13 | It was taking out a girl with a trail of boasts littering the streets behind you , although you both returned as virginal as you had set off but usually much colder . |
| 14 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 15 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 16 | And so , monologue complete , we had set off . |
| 17 | The house from which Haverford Downs intended to telephone his ‘ Jottings ’ belonged to the Harrisons , an elderly couple who had set off to visit their daughter in Toronto . |
| 18 | Though his yelling had not moved the stones it had set off the dogs and one against the other they barked and bayed , an unusual salute as he entered the bounds of the sheer-sided , heavy-wooded , spectacular wilderness . |
| 19 | He and Charlotte had grown tired of the undertaking business and had set off to London to start a new life — with all the money from Mr Sowerberry 's shop in their pockets . |
| 20 | Dexter had snatched them from the canteen just before he and Blanche had set off . |
| 21 | The Welshman had set off home in a cold fury . |
| 22 | Had set off to catch the bus . |
| 23 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 24 | There should have been light from above and below , but in fact there was almost none , and it was partly because of that , and because it was also rather colder than it had to be , that Quiss had set off something like an hour before to find some of the castle 's attendants . |
| 25 | Monday had been excusable , the roadworks unexpected ; by Tuesday the roadworks had grown and even though she had set off earlier she was still late . |
| 26 | The killings had set off widespread rioting in the occupied territories and in Jordan . |
| 27 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 28 | Through it the legions of Claudius and Nero had set off on their march along Watling Street nearly two thousand years ago . |
| 29 | He had set off early , too . |
| 30 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |