Example sentences of "set off in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love … |
| 2 | The gang told the woman they were heading towards Widnes , and they then set off in a blue car . |
| 3 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 4 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 5 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 6 | Obviously this would only be of benefit if there were capital gains against which the loss can be set off in the current or future years . |
| 7 | As Patricia Monahan says ‘ oil-painting should be a journey of exploration and pleasure ’ , adding that ‘ the artist sets off in a particular direction but ends up somewhere else . ’ |
| 8 | Sandison waited for one minute and then also left , setting off in the opposite direction from Maidstone . |
| 9 | On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | In the following year the Beaux-Arts style emerged at its most majestic in Washington , DC , containing some of the most powerful , overpowering indeed , spaces of any station , and set off in a great park-like setting . |
| 11 | Wilcox set off in a straight line , indifferent to the snow that covered his thin black shoes and clung to his trouser bottoms . |
| 12 | Marshall set off in a new direction . |
| 13 | They clambered down the cliff-path from Sea House and set off in a western direction along the beach to Badstoneleigh . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sandison himself set off in the opposite direction , towards his pensione . |
| 19 | He also sped off across Dartmoor in search of Tamara but , totally confused , after running wildly around , set off in the wrong direction , heading north between gently wooded hills to reach the Atlantic . |