Example sentences of "set off [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 2 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 3 | Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday . |
| 4 | In Dew v. Parsons ( 1819 ) 2 B. & Ald. 562 an attorney was held entitled to set off against a claim by a sheriff the excess amount which he had paid to the sheriff for the issue of warrants over what the sheriff was legally entitled to charge . |
| 5 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |
| 6 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 7 | A few chapters of Music , Mind , and Brain are stimulating and produce the right sort of sparks ; but others jar either because they are couched in long-winded jargon , or because they set off with a title and intent , which lead one to expect something new in the way of results , but then degenerate into vague speculations . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 10 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 11 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 12 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 13 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 14 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ALDWYCH Group staff set off on a treasure hunt — only to find they had to visit 15 pubs en route ! |
| 17 | For example , this is a passage of interpretive description of a Van Gogh self-portrait : ‘ … his emaciated , luminous head with its burning eyes set off against a whirlpool of darkness . |
| 18 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 19 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 20 | TWO boozy pals were caught by astonished police after they set off in a car — with BOTH of them driving . |
| 21 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 22 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 23 | The team will set off with a ride around Anglesey , starting from Menai Bridge on Saturday , June 19 . |
| 24 | The enormous park was a source of delight to most visitors — though not all — for sometimes the Empress , an indefatigable walker , would set off with a group of people to tramp through the grounds , occasionally going part of the way in a carriage . |
| 25 | The balance on a client account may not be set off against a sum owed to LCH on any other kind of account . |
| 26 | Moreover , a similar or larger proportion claim either to enjoy the frequent change of tasks and environment , the flexibility of " temping " and of being able to take spells off between assignments , or to have commitments which make continuous working impossible ; even if , as one recent survey ( Manpower , 1986 ) showed , this was Sometimes to be set off against a feeling of employment insecurity . |
| 27 | Even in Wales , where gloom and doom should have been the order of the next year or two , the clubs have set off in a style which has brought , instead , a nervous smile or two . |
| 28 | The trend of judge-made law may be set off by a case involving an atypical trade or may be located in a consumer transaction . |
| 29 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 30 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |