Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howley , an ICI man , also took charge of two South American club finals our splendid 1964 photograph shows him setting off from Darlington station for Montevideo . |
| 2 | Nevertheless he faces a huge step up when he sets out from Chester in 123rd position in a race that will decide the final destination of the FIA World Rally Championship , which must go to either France 's Didier Auriol , or Carlos Sainz of Spain , or to last year 's RAC winner Juha Kankkunen . |
| 3 | When he sets out from Rivendell Boromir blows his horn , the family heirloom , and is rebuked by Elrond for doing so ; but he takes no notice . |
| 4 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 5 | On a day which was among the more remarkable in literary history , he set out from Lime Street , and as on so many previous occasions reached Alfoxden down the lonely tree-shuttered lane through the deer park . |
| 6 | As he set off from Washington to campaign in Cleveland , Chicago and New York , he hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send American ground troops to join the UN peacekeepers who have gone to Macedonia to try to stop the Balkans war from spreading . |
| 7 | On 21 April 1982 he set off from Calcutta with a ticket , one dollar and a bicycle . |