Example sentences of "[pron] set off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set off to the sound of Mick trying to tune into his sports programme . |
| 2 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 3 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 4 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 5 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 6 | And so I set off across the field . |
| 7 | As a birthday celebration some time ago , I set off with a companion to conquer the two more accessible ones , Sgurr Thuilm and Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 8 | I set off up the stairs . |
| 9 | Once I had unpacked , I set off down the lane to have a look at the Round Tower before dark . |
| 10 | Bright and early next morning , I set off down the lane to work , my drawing pad and pens in my jauntily swinging plastic bag . |
| 11 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 12 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 13 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 14 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 15 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 19 | Their lack of routine means you can often encourage them to feed when you want them to — such as just before you set off on an outing . |
| 20 | Did n't you even stop to consider that , before you set off for an evening drive ? ’ |
| 21 | Mohammed came with us to Taroudant where Aziz organised the Tichka end ( his patch ) and we set off for the mountains . |
| 22 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 23 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
| 24 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 25 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 26 | Our 1963 Herald 12/50 was keen to get going , and at the allotted time we set off through the Borders and towards North Yorkshire . |
| 27 | Soon after breakfast we set off into the jungle . |
| 28 | I had acquired and learned to drive an old Hillman during the summer and , piling two tired and travel-sick children into the back with our parcels , we set off into the night . |
| 29 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
| 30 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |