Example sentences of "[pers pn] set off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 2 | With no further words , she set off across the wide lawns of the De Belving gardens , scattering a couple of sleepy peacocks as she went . |
| 3 | She set off across the rough turf towards the low hill brow ahead . |
| 4 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 5 | Every male from the neighbouring estancias , except Luke , who was off moving the cattle , seemed to be gathered round the paddock to watch her as she set off in the milky , misty morning light towards a row of poplar trees . |
| 6 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 7 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 8 | He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo . |
| 9 | He set off at a brisk walk . |
| 10 | He set off at a fast lope , leaving her amazed that he still had enough energy to move so quickly , but also puzzled . |
| 11 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 12 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 13 | He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction . |
| 14 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |