Example sentences of "set off from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They set off from the village of Arghuri on the morning of June 20th , in the year of Our Lord 1840 , accompanied only by their Kurdish guide . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 5 | Other devices are less consistently adopted , but it will be noticed that in ( 2 ) , as often , the non-restrictive clause is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas . |
| 6 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 7 | The London English sequence here is clearly set off from the rest of Brenda 's turn by its function , which is to elicit a " lost " piece of information . |
| 8 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 9 | So much for the talk on with the race … the mountain bikers hit the road first … 144 set off from the start in the centre of town … |